Eric Topol April 10, 2023
New funding and priority: Nasal vaccines, pan-coronavirus vaccines, monoclonal antibodies
Today is a big day.
$5 Billion dollars are allocated to next generation Covid vaccines and therapies.
Those of you who’ve been following my editorials, such as with Akiko Iwasaki calling for Operation Nasal Vaccine, or with Dennis Burton for variant-proof vaccines, or many posts (here, here) and op-eds (here, here) will know I, and many others, have been pleading the case to gear up for better Covid vaccines and therapies. At times my frustration peaked, like with this twitter post last November.
That has now changed. It’s not the ~$18 billion as spent for Operation Warp Speed (OWS), but this is a substantial allocation that...