WASHINGTON – Army The United States (USA) has developed COVID-19 vaccine which is believed to be able to fight all variants of the corona virus (COVID-19), including omicron . The results of the Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle (SpFN) vaccine trial in humans are expected to be known by the end of the month.
Phase I trials in humans began in April 2021 on 72 people to determine the effectiveness of the SpFN Vaccine. Previous laboratory studies have shown that this new vaccine is able to protect monkeys from exposure to the COVID-19 virus and induce a very strong antibody response against the major variants that emerged during the pandemic. (Read also; Omicron Rampage in UK, Reaches 100K Cases in a Day )
“Our strategy is to develop ‘pan-coronavirus’ vaccine technology to provide safe, effective, and long-lasting protection against a wide variety of coronavirus strains and species,” said Kayvon Modjarrad, MD, co-inventor of the SpFN vaccine and director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch at Walter Reed Army Research Institute, quoted by SINDOnews from the consumer.healthday page, Thursday (12/23/2021). (Read also; South Africa Has Passed the Peak of the Omicron Plague )
The SpFN vaccine, according to an article on the national security news site Defense One, uses a protein shaped like a soccer ball. Each of the 24 different molecular faces can carry a different protein derived from the unique variant of COVID-19. “This creates a broad immune response to the coronavirus,” Defense One wrote.