Source: US News & World Report
“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. The project involves producing vaccines from chemically inactivated whole viruses, reminiscent of how flu vaccines were made decades ago, WSJ said. 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. The project also includes research on a second universal flu vaccine and universal coronavirus vaccines, according to a HHS statement to the WSJ.” (05/01/25)