{"id":122236,"date":"2021-05-03T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/universal-coronavirus-vaccine-may-protect-against-variants-common-cold"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:23:46","slug":"universal-coronavirus-vaccine-may-protect-against-variants-common-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/universal-coronavirus-vaccine-may-protect-against-variants-common-cold","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Universal\u2019 coronavirus vaccine may protect against variants, common cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-coronavirus-vaccine-may-protect-against-variants-common-cold.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID-19 variants as well as other coronaviruses \u2014 maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s dirt cheap \u2014 less than $1 a dose, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine targets a part of the COVID-19 virus\u2019 spike protein that appears to be highly resistant to mutation and is common across nearly all coronaviruses, said senior researcher Dr. Steven Zeichner. He is a professor of pediatric infectious disease with the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID-19 variants as well as other coronaviruses \u2014 maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold. And it\u2019s dirt cheap \u2014 less than $1 a dose, researchers say. The vaccine targets a part of the COVID-19 virus\u2019 spike protein that appears to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122236","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}