Personalised Vaccines

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 7:59 a.m.

When will there be a vaccine to protect people against Covid? That is the question being asked across the world especially as we move into the winter flu season. But what if instead of getting a seasonal flu shot every year we just had to get a jab once and what if we had personalised vaccines that suited specific groups of the population? Jonathan spoke to Dr Ofer Levy, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School & Director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital to find out more. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.