Here’s what they are trying to find, via the Times Union: Assuming everything goes as planned, the shot could be available by the spring of 2024. The company started a trial earlier this year. Mark Klempner of MassBiologics explained that they are trying to change the public’s opinion of preventive care, specifically stressing that it’s a “medicinal shot versus a vaccine.” (“It is medicine that bypasses the immune system, gives you exactly what you need and nothing else,” Klempner said.) Similar to the flu shot, the shot - which has been in the works for nearly a decade - could provide relief for those who work in or relax outdoors while protecting themselves from the bites of ticks.

Now, researchers at MassBiologics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have been working on a jab that could be administered annually.

The report noted that there once was a vaccine developed called LYMErix, which “prevented 76% and 92% of infections” with three injections, but production halted when sales declined drastically in the early 2000s. The Times Union reported that positive strides in discussions centered around vaccines that could develop a shot to prevent humans from contracting Lyme disease. Yet it was backed by the pragmatic President Harry Truman, who recognized not only that the richest country in the world had a moral obligation to help countries devastated by World War II but also that the misery and chaos in those countries would make their citizens vulnerable to Communist indoctrination.With renewed interest in vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s hope that another vaccine could be on the way to tackle one of America’s other big problems: Lyme disease. The original Marshall Plan to rebuild postwar Europe - signed into law 59 years ago last week - was also a bold concept with a big price tag. 'That's never going to happen.' Which is why the first step in making this and other crucial ideas a reality is for us to shift our thinking. During that time, economic, industrial, environmental and political strategies could be developed and implemented to help make the gains permanent. In their model, the United States, followed by other major industrialized nations, would dedicate at least 1 percent of gross domestic product each year for the next 20 years to substantially reduce or eliminate global and domestic poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education and inadequate health care, and to ameliorate the physical damage we've done to our planet. The Network of Spiritual Progressives, an interfaith organization that recently emerged from the religious left, has joined with other groups and prominent individuals in proposing what they call a Global Marshall Plan.

The Heart Has Reasons by Mark Klempner