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Inhaled COVID vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials

New results hint at how to perfect ‘mucosal’ vaccines, which are delivered up the nose or down the throat.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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Delivery of COVID-19 vaccines directly to the lungs and nose can stop SARS-CoV-2 infections in their tracks, according to a trio of new studies in monkeys. The research offers a boost to the wave of ‘mucosal’ COVID-19 vaccines now in development — and provides clues about how they might be improved.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04003-4

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