Mucosal vaccines timeline estimates (adjusted)

There was a new update on the vaccine blog: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org

First kudos to it, because finding any other location that gathers information on all the vaccine projects is a difficult task.

Current Status:

5 mucosal vaccines authorized for use across 6 countries • 31 mucosal vaccines have reached clinical trials • One "variant-proof" vaccine (LUNAR-COV19) authorized by stringent regulators • Multiple Project NextGen-funded trials moving forward in various phases

COVID vaccines, with particular progress in mucosal and variant-resistant approaches, though no vaccines have yet demonstrated clinical effectiveness against transmission.

So based on this projection for new mucosal vaccines:

• 12 Months (If everything works perfectly and with no delay)
  • 24 Months - (More likely based on regulatory agency speeds for approvals -36 Months - (Safest prediction)

December 2025 - maybe? December 2026 - more likely. December 2027 - World party tour

• Of course we also need to have multiple other ways to fight COVID. We need a viable treatment for Long COVID. Better antivirals to prevent complications and LC. In a lot of ways LC treatments are vastly more important than a Nexgen vaccine because so many people are suffering from it right now.

So the point I want to stress. Do not lose hope! We definitely are going towards a conclusion with COVID.

• Projections calculated by Claude.AI Pro