but unlike the mrna vaccines we ve come to know, at duke they re working on something called a nanoparticle vaccine. there s multiple sites that can be recognized by antibodies. think of it like a soccer ball with tiny proteins stuck to the surface, each with a key site of the protein. so far in primates the vaccine seems to work. and now a similar vaccine prepared pie military scientists has made it into human trials. but as exciting as this science is, it s going t take time and patience. i don t think anyone to think that pan coronavirus vaccines are literally around the cornner a month or two. it s going to take years to develop. much of the work being done today on covid is built on the back of similar research on other viruses. f influenza, hiv. we ve been working on an hiv vaccine now almost 30 years here
back of similar research on other viruses, influenza, hiv. we ve been working on an hiv vaccine now for almost 30 years here at duke. hiv is one of the most rapidly evolving life forms on earth. that s because hiv mutates much faster, and that s one reason why dr. barton haines thinks developing a universal vaccine for coronaviruses may be easier. developing that platform for hiv over the last five years allowed this to happen when the need arose very quickly. the most challenging part is that the virus is always changing. how do you predict what s coming in the future so that your vaccine can be effective against it? and he s not just talking about coronaviruses that are infecting humans right now, but also novel ones that could still spill over from animals. ones we don t even know about yet. that s the type of vaccines we re going to need in order to prevent the next pandemic. jake, it s just really
we re going to have to see what happens with omicron, with the next variant. we re going to have to understand more fully what happens with immunity for the average person, for people who are older, for people who have immune suppression. it s good we re seeing more choices, but bottom line, get vaccinated today if you re not up to date with your vaccinations. so important. let me get your thoughts, dr. freet preed den, on a potential universal vaccine which dr. fauci said could be years away. what kind of impact would that have? it s really important. if we could have a coronavirus vaccine that would handle any future variant, that would be enormously important and essentially taking this off the table in terms of a future devastating wave from a future variant. remember we ve been trying to make a universal vaccine for several decades and an hiv vaccine for several decades, and
emergency use authorization. pfizer s vaccine already referred full approval back in august. new polling shows that most middle easterns think it s time to accept most americans think that it s time that covid is here to stay and we should all get on with our lives. in the latest mon mouth university poll say 70% agree with that statement compared with 28% who disagree. among republicans, 89% agree. and among independents, 71%. democrats though are more divided, a slim majority saying they disagree with that sentiment. and in another health story, a clinical trial is now under way to study the safety and efficacy and the mrna based hiv vaccine. moderna said last week, it has administered the first doses of this experimental vaccine. the clinical trial will include a series of shots among 56 healthy hiv negative adults. moderna will be using the same mrna technology that has proven successful in the development of the aforementioned covid-19
Local HIV advocates are cheering the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed funding increase for federal HIV-eradication efforts and expanded access to PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, which refers.