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This article text should be much earlier.

> However, all these approaches are at the absolute boundary of science and have not been proven to work before. More traditional methods of vaccine development are also being investigated. The company Valneva is taking the whole coronavirus, inactivating it and then inject it.

One name for approaches "at the absolute boundary of science" is research. Only one company is named as developing an actual vaccine. We need new category names for the many competing treatments which are still in research phases, including those which utilize genetic engineering.



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