(Reuters) -The United States is investing $500 million in a vaccine project, with the goal of making “universal” vaccines that protect against multiple strains of a virus at once, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing emails.<\/p>\n
The project involves producing vaccines from chemically inactivated whole viruses, reminiscent of how flu vaccines were made decades ago, WSJ said.<\/p>\n
The move is part of what the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) calls ‘Generation Gold Standard’, a universal-vaccine technology that represents a shift in funding from COVID-19 projects to studies of more viruses, the paper reported.<\/p>\n
The project also includes research on a second universal flu vaccine and universal coronavirus vaccines, according to a HHS statement to the WSJ.<\/p>\n
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, The Washington Post reported late Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, is well known as a vaccine sceptic and founded the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense, which has sued in state and federal courts over common inoculations, including measles.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Disha Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Freya Whitworth)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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