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Great news if this can be developed into a universal covid vaccine with no side effects that everyone can take
The same news got posted to reddit over a year ago(https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pd5v8r/antibody_found_that_neutralizes_all_known_strains/) and someone commented something similar to your comment. Because I am lazy, I am simply quoting, whatI wrote back then:
This is super important to know. Getting the right sequence identified and reproduced correctly is an enormous task similar in scope to producing a nuclear weapon that actually, you know, works.
I would add that successfully creating the vaccine is not enough. I mean, it has to be injected on a global scale, if not it keeps evolving into new variants, right? But even if there are enough shots available, they're still in the hands of corporations. And as we saw in the past two years, many poor countries didn't get enough to vaccinate even half of their people. Solving the problem doesn't give as much revenue as this scenario.
I must confess that I did not read the abstract of the new paper but the paper from last year said (IIRC) that the antibody in question attaches to a structure in Coronaviruses that, should it mutate to change it so that the antibody was no longer effective, the experts were qiite sure that as a result, the virus would no longer be infectous to humans.
pretty sure all vaccines have side effects. still beats getting the disease
There is no such thing as a medicine with no side effects. Never has been, never will be.