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Coronavirus: Germany’s Robert Koch Institute withdraws optimistic vaccine claim
Deutsche Welle ^ | 08.12.2020 | John Silk

Posted on 08/12/2020 6:52:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) withdrew a report on Wednesday that claimed a coronavirus vaccine was imminent. The public health agency said the document was published in error.

The paper, which has now been removed from the institute’s website, was an out-of-date version of a document being worked on by the agency, an RKI spokeswoman said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the RKI released the document which proclaimed a vaccine could be available as early this fall.

The agency produced a German-language paper entitled “The pandemic in Germany in the coming months.” It said: “Preliminary projections make the availability of one or several vaccines seem possible by autumn 2020.” But the RKI are now distancing themselves from the prediction. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; germany; robertkochinstitute; vaccine

1 posted on 08/12/2020 6:52:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Does it matter? They’ve already got 65% of the masses ready to take, right now, ready or not.


2 posted on 08/12/2020 6:53:50 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: Olog-hai

You can’t vaccinate on these tiny little 10 µm coronaviruses and they know it

These little rna viruses are so tiny that it’s nearly impossible to direct some thing that small for effective immune response

this and other flu bugs are also constantly changing and evolving - there’s already 12 different sub species of Covid to they have no concept of how to go about it

Nonetheless the government has to come out with saying that they have some thing a. and let all the Karen’s lineup and pay 100 bucks and get a vaccine so they feel better - that’s just the way it is


3 posted on 08/12/2020 6:59:52 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: Truthoverpower
“You can’t vaccinate on these tiny little 10 µm coronaviruses and they know it.”

The vaccine may not work, but it's not because of the size of the viral particle. Polio vaccine works very well, and the polio picornavirus is substantially smaller than Covid.

By the way. Coronavirus/Covid is much smaller than the 10 microns that you state. the Covid capsid is ~85 nm in diameter (0.085 micrometers), and the spike proteins are about 20 nm long (0.020 micrometers). So the maximum size of Covid is ~0.105 micrometers.

I agree with your points about mutations and subspecies.

4 posted on 08/12/2020 7:51:44 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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