{"id":6483,"date":"2024-07-02T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2024-07-02T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T23:27:36","slug":"nih-announces-launch-of-clinical-trial-for-nasal-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nih-announces-launch-of-clinical-trial-for-nasal-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH announces launch of clinical trial for nasal COVID vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday announced the launch of a phase 1 trial of a nasal vaccine against COVID-19, which also marks the first National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) trial conducted as part of the government\u2019s Project NextGen\u2014an effort designed to advance the development of next-generation vaccines against the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In an NIH statement, NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, said first-generation COVID vaccines have greatly mitigated the toll of the disease and are still effective for preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death. She added, however, that they aren\u2019t as good at preventing illness and battling milder disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the continual emergence of new virus variants, there is a critical need to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, including nasal vaccines, that could reduce SARS-CoV-2 infections and transmission,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday announced the launch of a phase 1 trial of a nasal vaccine against COVID-19, which also marks the first National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) trial conducted as part of the government\u2019s Project NextGen\u2014an effort designed to advance the development of next-generation vaccines against the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In an NIH statement, NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, said first-generation COVID vaccines have greatly mitigated the toll of the disease and are still effective for preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death. She added, however, that they aren\u2019t as good at preventing illness and battling milder disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the continual emergence of new virus variants, there is a critical need to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, including nasal vaccines, that could reduce SARS-CoV-2 infections and transmission,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nih-announces-launch-of-clinical-trial-for-nasal-covid-vaccine\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIH announces launch of clinical trial for nasal COVID vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,1186,1184,85,1185,8,14,51,15],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-nasal-vaccines","tag-national-institute-for-allergy-and-infectious-diseases","tag-national-institutes-of-health","tag-niaid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}