President Trump, Sec. Azar, and Tony Fauci announced today the FDA has approved a fast track program to begin Phase 1 dosing trial of a COVID-19 virus in one month. They didn’t name the company involved but it appears to be Inovio Pharma in San Diego from the way their stock soared today. They briefed the President’s team on their proprietary platform that sequenced the virus from the genome provided by the Chinese in 3 days and then synthesized the mRNA chains that produce the vaccine in volume.
They have indicated they can produce 1 million doses by the end of 2020 once they have shown safety and effectiveness in the Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials.
Never underestimate the power of smart people that are liberated to solve problems in Trump time. Thanks Inovio!
They did some cool stuff with Ebola. I saw a news piece on them before all of this stuff happened. They do things much differently than the big pharma guys.
Nice!!!