{"id":107566,"date":"2020-05-24T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/harvard-scientists-are-developing-a-coronavirus-vaccine-specifically-for-those-most-vulnerable-the-elderly"},"modified":"2020-05-24T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:03:08","slug":"harvard-scientists-are-developing-a-coronavirus-vaccine-specifically-for-those-most-vulnerable-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/harvard-scientists-are-developing-a-coronavirus-vaccine-specifically-for-those-most-vulnerable-the-elderly","title":{"rendered":"Harvard scientists are developing a coronavirus vaccine specifically for those most vulnerable: the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-are-developing-a-coronavirus-vaccine-specifically-for-those-most-vulnerable-the-elderly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 teams around the world are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Dr. Ofer Levy and a group of Harvard Medical School researchers are among them, but the vaccine they\u2019re working on is a little different. It\u2019s specifically designed for those most vulnerable to the disease: the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost vaccines are developed with a one-size-fits-all concept,\u201d Levy told Business Insider. \u201cAcademic centers and companies typically develop a vaccine assuming that you will respond to the vaccine the same way, whether you\u2019re a man or a woman, whether you\u2019re young or elderly, whether you live in the US or Africa, whether you give the vaccine in the summer or winter, whether you give it in the morning or the evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Vaccines generally aren\u2019t as effective for the elderly. A Harvard lab is working on a COVID-19 vaccine that would be most effective for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 teams around the world are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Dr. Ofer Levy and a group of Harvard Medical School researchers are among them, but the vaccine they\u2019re working on is a little different. It\u2019s specifically designed for those most vulnerable to the disease: the elderly. \u201cMost vaccines are developed with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}