The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investing half a billion dollars into a project that seeks to develop universal vaccinations for numerous viruses, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The project is called “Generation Gold Standard.” It seeks to use chemically inactivated whole viruses, which is how flu vaccines were created decades ago. Currently, flu vaccines contain synthetic viral proteins or pieces of viruses.
The goal is to create these vaccines with such technology that are “universal,” meaning they will protect against multiple strains of a virus, like the flu, coronavirus, and RSV.
The new project would shift HHS from its current COVID projects and use funding from larger cuts the department has already made.
For example, The Journal noted that under former President Joe Biden, HHS developed a $5 billion project called NextGen, which…
