Pfizer working on a combination vaccine to target COVID and the flu
Pfizer and BioNTech announed this week it is starting the first phase of is U.S. clinical trial for the first combination vaccine to tackle the two illnesses.
Kim will start testing Moderna's version of a combo vaccine in December. He says the mRNA technology makes it possible to code proteins for four different flu strains and two COVID variants. "You don't know whether there'll be some decrease in the efficacy. There's a possibility of different side effects that could occur because there's multiple vaccines in there," Kim said.
"What we're doing, really, is trying to prevent mortality, hospitalizations, and just really bad outcomes," he added.
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