Vaccine Development Should Be Polytheistic, Not Monotheistic.
Stanley A PlotkinJames M RobinsonJoseph R A FitchettEdward GershburgPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
Vaccines based on mRNA technology have been tremendously successful, but their properties are not necessarily ideal for all pathogens. There is a risk that concentration on that technology alone for new vaccine development will ignore older technologies that have properties giving broader and more persistent protection.