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This Could Be the Only Way to Beat COVID for Good

The ever-mutating virus always seems to be one step ahead of our best efforts to contain it. But scientists say there’s a way to change that.

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The novel coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates and evolves. Fast. Variant after variant. Subvariants between the variants.

The virus is active. But our efforts to contain it are reactive. Thirty-four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we still haven’t figured out a way to get ahead of the virus—and offer people immunity that endures even as the virus evolves.

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