“Big Data” analysis by artificial intelligence, is enabling a new approach to vaccine design.
Of all the features of a pathogen that the immune system might recognize (called epitopes), the AI can select those that are most effective at inducing immunity, those that cover the widest number of possible variants, and exclude those that cause the most or worst side effects.
This new generation of engineered vaccines can be optimized, like never before.
Walter Reed is pursing a similarly designed new pan-coronavirus vaccine (actually, just the betscoronaviruses, but they include SARS and MERS), that is designed to confer immunity to all variants of COVID, as well as SARS and MERS.
It worked in animal testing, and passed the first phase of safety testing in humans. It has moved on to larger scale phase 2 human trials.
What a great way for a malevolent AI to get rid of pesky humans!
To what end?
People die everyday, from everything between allergic reactions to lightning strikes. What is this hyperfixation on viruses among these people?