Secret UK lab making new disease variants-just in case they need a vaccine for them

 Secret U.K. Lab is Making New Covid Variants and Working on a Vaccine for ‘Disease X’ to “Stop Next Pandemic in its Tracks”

BY WILL JONES

A secret military-linked U.K. laboratory is making new variants of Covid and working on a vaccine for ‘Disease X’ in order to stop the next pandemic “in its tracks”, according to the BBC. James Gallagher has more.

One of the U.K.’s most secretive centres of scientific research – Porton Down – is aiming to stop the next pandemic “in its tracks”.

I have passed through the incredibly tight security at this remote facility to get rare access to its scientists.

They are based in the shiny new Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre.

Their work builds on the response to Covid, and aims to save lives and minimise the need for lockdowns when a new disease next emerges.

“Covid, of course, is not a one-off,” says Prof. Dame Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which runs these laboratories.

“We say it [Covid] was the biggest public health incident for a century, but I don’t think any of us think it’ll be a century before the next,” she adds.