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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

What's New in Vaccines?

We are very clearly in a golden age of vaccine research and maybe also vaccine production. There was a record, uh, or one of the most successful trials for any vaccine in malaria came out this year. An experimental flu vaccine that was found to be protective against all known types of flu in animals. If this vaccine worked, it would essentially lower the mortality ceiling of every kind of flu that we could possibly get over time.

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