Does this mean that the more traditional vaccines (ex. Oxford) will be more robust to mutations in the virus? Do you expect that vaccine to ever stop working?
We need a new "traditional" influenza vaccine each year--there's no much you can count on, and even if you're an expert who's spent 10,000 hours poring over papers like https://tinyurl.com/12g0skpf your guess won't improve much. We have to wait for the data... there are surprises and exceptions and loopholes and Rube Goldberg turtles all the way down with biology. Any molecular therapeutic for an infectious disease is potentially in an arms race with the target. The same is true of molecular *diagnostics*--which is why I work on solid-state diagnostics...
Does this mean that the more traditional vaccines (ex. Oxford) will be more robust to mutations in the virus? Do you expect that vaccine to ever stop working?
We need a new "traditional" influenza vaccine each year--there's no much you can count on, and even if you're an expert who's spent 10,000 hours poring over papers like https://tinyurl.com/12g0skpf your guess won't improve much. We have to wait for the data... there are surprises and exceptions and loopholes and Rube Goldberg turtles all the way down with biology. Any molecular therapeutic for an infectious disease is potentially in an arms race with the target. The same is true of molecular *diagnostics*--which is why I work on solid-state diagnostics...