Thread: A universal flu vaccine may be the next big mRNA breakthrough

The research and development that led to the Covid-19 vaccines have boosted efforts to find a more powerful, longer-lasting flu vaccine, perhaps taking steps towards virologists' holy grail: a one-time, universal flu jab.

Scientists at Pfizer and Moderna, the pharmaceutical companies that harnessed a half-century of research into mRNA technology to create Covid vaccines, are using that same know-how in exploring ways to inoculate the masses from the flu.

"As demonstrated through the COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA vaccines offer...the potential to manufacture higher potency flu vaccines more rapidly than contemporary flu vaccines," Pirada Suphaphiphat, vice president of viral vaccine research at New York City-based Pfizer, told CNBC by email. "The pandemic allowed us to deliver on the immense scientific opportunity of mRNA...

Universal flu vaccine may be next big Moderna, Pfizer mRNA development

I hope not. It's quite obvious these things don't work and can have pretty nasty side effects.

I think the big breakthrough will be normal people treating the virus themselves with remedies the doctors withhold.

Well I don't want that one either.

That's gonna be a hard NO from me.