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"Universal" flu vaccine announced by 2025, with funding from Larry Page?

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In 2019, Google co-founder Lary Page started working to develop a universal flu vaccine. The technology billionaire is investing in Flu Lab, a company that seeks to create such a universal vaccine.

According to the current medical protocol, every year doctors are supposed to update the formulation of the influenza vaccine, because the virus mutates. If successfully developed, however, Flu Lab's vaccine claims it would protect patients against any kind of virus - not just one at a time - for more than 1 year. Therefore, it would no longer be necessary to "guess" which flu strains are more likely to circulate next flu season.

If by 2025, Flu Lab announces an influenza vaccine that protects for more than one flu season, that answer will be resolved as "Yes".

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