Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
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So perhaps you need to stop or cover the head with foam.
Let's say that, right?
And then the cow cannot do damage.
Or the feet.
Then even if they kick you, they cannot do damage.
But if you cover the tail...
Well, the cow cannot give you any damage with the tail.
So there are some areas in the virus that we call non-protective.
So we need to find the protective areas of the virus that are conserved.
And then we need to induce an immune response against these conserved areas by designing a vaccine that is different from the ones that we have because the ones that we have
only induce good responses against the variable areas.
Yeah, which are very good, but they don't protect you against future strains.
They don't protect you against pandemic strains.
Well, it took a while.
It took a while.