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In the United States, a gloomy forecast has emerged that the corona virus will spread again in the second half of this year and 100 million people can be confirmed.

The U.S. government is preparing to inject a large-scale budget, saying that the next-generation vaccine to respond to the coronavirus will definitely come out.



Washington Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung reports.



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On the 3rd, the CDC and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an investigation after a cluster infection occurred on a cruise ship that arrived in Seattle.



[Walter Barbies/Corona confirmed passenger: Corona arose suddenly and spread widely.]



At the end of March, the number of confirmed cases in the United States, which had decreased to 20,000, exceeded 70,000 again.



The White House has released a grim outlook for 100 million Americans in the second half of this year.



As time passes, immunity decreases and mutations continue to appear, meaning that a person who has been infected with the corona once can be infected again.



In response, the White House has made the release of a next-generation vaccine a reality.



[Asishi Za/White House Corona Coordinator (ABC broadcast Twitter): The next-generation vaccine will almost certainly come.

The FDA will make the final decision.]



The $22.5 billion coronavirus budget has also been requested by Congress.



White House chief medical adviser Fauci, interviewed by SBS, also suggested that a new, customized vaccine would be available.



[Anthony Fauci / Chief Medical Adviser of the White House (SBS interview): (Will we need a new vaccine to combat the omicron mutation soon?) Open to the requirement to change the vaccine to respond appropriately to the actual epidemic mutation. You must think.]



Moderna announced that clinical trials on a bivalent vaccine with two antigens confirmed that it had a neutralizing antibody response that was more than twice that of Omicron compared to the conventional booster inoculation.



It seems that the Korean government will also have to respond quickly to secure domestic supply by closely monitoring the new vaccine launch trend.



(Video coverage: Oh Jeong-sik)