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Researchers testing COVID-19 vaccine patch...

Researchers began testing a new COVID-19 vaccine patch this month that they hope will provide long-lasting protection against the virus.

On Wednesday, researchers said the PepGNP-Covid19 vaccine is in an early-study phase, as the technology is much different than the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines, Reuters reported.

Instead of producing an antibody response, the vaccine patch focuses on cellular immunity by targeting T-cells that could eliminate the coronavirus and prevent it from spreading in the body.

he vaccine works by putting a patch with microneedles on a person then taking it off.

"With this new vaccine that generates this cellular immunity we hope to have a longer period of protection ... we don't know yet, but it could be one year, two years, three years," professor Blaise Genton, head of the study, told Reuters...

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