This COVID vaccine can be inhaled and it's being made and tested in Canada COVID19
The vaccine is part of a second generation of COVID-19 vaccines and one of two Canadian-made formulas that hope to offer a more robust, and more stable immune response. Quebec-based Medicago Inc.
But with SARS-CoV-2 set to linger for months, perhaps years, and more booster doses likely to follow, it’s still important to test new vaccines that work in different ways, Smaill said.Article content The vaccine uses strains of a weakened adenovirus, a family of viruses that cause the common cold. Two are being tested on 30 healthy volunteers — a vaccine using a human adenovirus, the other a chimpanzee adenovirus.
“If you can generate that local immune response in the lung,” it may prove better to boost with an inhaled vaccine, she said. Canada has also shown that mixing vaccines can trigger a stronger response. “For a number of reasons, this has the promise of being a more effective way to boost,” Smaill said.Article content
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