Over $1.4 billion has been awarded to clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines, the development of a new monoclonal antibody, and new vaccines and therapeutic technologies.
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The "NextGen" initiative was set to develop future technologies to protect against COVID-19, such as mucosal vaccines delivered through the nose, vaccines that provide broad protection against future variants, as well as different coronavirus, more durable monoclonal antibodies, and technologies to strengthen production of vaccines and therapeutics,The investments are still vital despite much of the attention on the pandemic fading away, experts say.
"I’m not somebody who thought that the bivalent shot uptake should have been 100%. I think what we wanted was the bivalent shot to have 100% uptake amongst high-risk groups and we probably had about 50% of high-risk groups getting vaccinated," Adalja said. "I think by saying everybody needs to get it, people don’t sense that they're at risk...I think we need to make a case for exactly who needs to be vaccinated again, and why," Dr. Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Philadelphia told ABC News.
"This notion of a yearly vaccine never made a lot of sense to me. Because by the time you make these booster doses, the virus that you've made it for is gone. I believe that happened last year in June of 2022." Offit said.
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