Army’s COVID-19 vaccine may hold key to beating coronavirus mutations
By Michael Wilner and Tara Copp, McClatchy Washington Bureau
Published: January 17, 2021, 2:25pm
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WASHINGTON — Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute have promising new data indicating their vaccine will work against significant mutations of COVID-19, as well as entirely different coronaviruses, an achievement that other vaccines so far have not accomplished.
The data has yet to be peer reviewed. But the Army lab is hopeful that a pan-coronavirus vaccine is achievable after testing the drug on SARS, a coronavirus that emerged in 2003 with significant biological differences from the current pandemic disease known as SARS-CoV-2.