Posted on 02/29/2020 12:45:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The head of a research institute in Israel has said its scientists are "weeks" away from developing a vaccine against the deadly new coronavirus which causes COVID-19.
The new virus that has killed over 2,800 people is a member of the large coronavirus family of pathogens, which also includes SARS and MERS. On Thursday, the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute said in a statement a new vaccine against a coronavirus which infects chickens has brought them a step closer to developing a preparation to protect against COVID-19.
According to the statement, a multi-disciplinary team created an Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) vaccine which has been shown to be effective in pre-clinical trials. The scientists found the bird virus has a similar genetic code to and infects individuals in the same way as the deadly new coronavirus in humans, of which there are over 83,000 cases as shown by the Statista map below. This "increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time," the institute said.
The scientists adjusted the IBV vaccine to the virus which causes COVID-19, and are working on meeting safety standards which will enable them to test it "in-vivo," or in living organisms. They hope these steps will "enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world," the statement read.
Commenting on the news, David Zigdon, CEO of MIGAL said: "Given the urgent global need for a human coronavirus vaccine, we are doing everything we can to accelerate development.
"Our goal is to produce the vaccine during the next 8 to 10 weeks, and to achieve safety approval in 90 days. This will be an oral vaccine, making it particularly accessible to the general public.
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The germ THEORY of disease is pushed hard by BIG PHARMA to sell ineffective vaccines full of mercury. But it’s a hoax.
Do your own research on how miasmas are the REAL source of 99% of all diseases. Fresh air is the cure! Simple fresh air. And essential oils can help a lot as well.
How long did it take them to bring the swine flu vaccine to use? Memory says it was quick.
Thank you.
We can add two more to the last 48 hour list, with one qualification for the two.
Ireland and Luxembourg have been added.
There is some confusion because Northern Ireland dropped off the list when Ireland popped up.
My check sum tells me the count is off by one, balancing.
This may be why. They may be counting the number just once, and not for both nations, like my list does momentarily.
I will delete Northern Ireland if it doesn’t show up on the list tomorrow, and the count is still off by 1.
And God kept his word...
AMEN and SECOND IT.
Israel said 90 days.
Unless and only unless President Trump does an EO.
Let’s hope so.
“Unless and only unless President Trump does an EO.”
Rock and hard place here. If the POTUS undermines the process that protects the system from anything that can happen, you can be assured that if anyone dies or is injured by the vaccination, it will fall back on to Trump and the republican party that will be presented by the media, therefore the voters, that they acted prematurely and that their short sightedness was the cause of the injury. And it will come on so thick you’ll think Trump did it on purpose. Remember the hot coffee at McDonald’s? This one on steroids. In the words of Raul Emanuel, “Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste.”
rwood
Correction: “let’s just say”.
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