Pan-Sarbecovirus vaccine concept presented to WHO by Stanley Plotkins

Upon the discovery of pan-sarbecovirus neutralizing antibodies, Dr Stanley Plotkins has wasted no time to introduce the concept of a “Pan-Sarbecovirus Vaccine” at the WHO Vaccine Research meeting December 6, 2021. [1]

Taxonomically SARS-CoV-2 is a Betacornavirus, of the subgenus Sarbecovirus, unlike SARS and MERS.

A couple of weeks later the US Army release information that they are working on a pan-coronavirus vaccine, a Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle (SpFN) COVID-19 vaccine, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, said to be able to work on all SARS-CoV-2’s potential variants.