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Personalised Vaccines

When will there be a vaccine to protect people against Covid? That is the question being asked ac...

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13.14 26 Sep 2020


Personalised Vaccines



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13.14 26 Sep 2020


When will there be a vaccine to protect people against Covid?

That is the question being asked across the world especially as we move into the winter flu season.

But what if instead of getting a seasonal flu shot every year we just had to get a jab once and what if we had personalised vaccines that suited specific groups of the population?

Jonathan spoke to Dr Ofer Levy, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School & Director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital to find out more.

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