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Coronavirus: The married couple behind the successful Pfizer COVID vaccine
news.sky.com ^ | 10 November 2020 | Amy Coles

Posted on 11/10/2020 2:01:45 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

News that a Pfizer vaccine is 90% effective against COVID-19 has been heralded as a turning point in the global fight against the virus.

But while the vaccine has been bankrolled by the American pharmaceutical giant, the science itself is the work of BioNTech, a German company founded by married couple and dedicated physicians Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci.

Together, they are being hailed as the brains that allowed the potentially transformative coronavirus vaccine to come about.

Scientists and entrepreneurs Professor Sahin, 55, and Dr Tureci, 53, are now among the 100 richest Germans, with the value of their company BioNTech soaring to $21bn (£16bn) in the wake of the vaccine breakthrough.

But, as children of immigrants, they came from humbler beginnings.

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1 posted on 11/10/2020 2:01:45 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Is it just me or does it seem a “little fishy” that a week after the election SHAZAM! we have a vaccine?


2 posted on 11/10/2020 2:16:51 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

A major investor in BioNTech is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-new-collaboration-develop-hiv-and


3 posted on 11/10/2020 2:51:33 AM PST by Vera Lex
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To: Vera Lex

“Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”??

Not good association.

I’m still reluctant to accept that humans are smart enough to use genetic modification to “solve” problems. The combinations that are possible in the lab, do not mean they don’t create new problems.

Example the Wuhan Flu. That was a man made bio experiment, that turned to a weapon.

The idea that humans can patent a living organism created by genetic modification is a very frightening and dangerous concept.

Follow the money and you will find people driving things that don’t act in a human manner.


4 posted on 11/10/2020 3:18:51 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

For what it is worth, the couple are Muslim. And from Turkey.

They are humble from the reports in the press and very wealthy.

I am not going to try to “judge” them, just saying.


5 posted on 11/10/2020 3:21:54 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/11/09/joe-biden-coronavirus-adviser-vaccine-should-be-distributed-globally-not-to-america-first/ FB won’t let me post this story. Joe Biden Coronavirus Adviser: Vaccine Should Be Distributed Globally, Not to America First


6 posted on 11/10/2020 3:31:32 AM PST by Singermom
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To: Berlin_Freeper

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/11/09/joe-biden-coronavirus-adviser-vaccine-should-be-distributed-globally-not-to-america-first/ FB won’t let me post this story. Joe Biden Coronavirus Adviser: Vaccine Should Be Distributed Globally, Not to America First


7 posted on 11/10/2020 3:31:57 AM PST by Singermom
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Amazing how the vaccine is 90% effective since over 90% already recover from the big bad Covid-19 today.


8 posted on 11/10/2020 5:57:05 AM PST by disclaimer
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Pfizer’s animal vaccine spinoff Zoetis just recently opened up another facility in CHYna.


9 posted on 11/10/2020 6:01:02 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: HighSierra5

And the spokesman for Pfizer on tv last night said it was a win for ‘science’. Unfortunately when a scientific company has to back up what they’ve done with the word ‘science’, immediately I think left wing politics are heavily involved.


10 posted on 11/10/2020 6:14:57 AM PST by bugman
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Additional info on L4 labs...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/5/18-0220_article


11 posted on 11/10/2020 6:15:20 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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The philosophy behind it all...

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838


12 posted on 11/10/2020 6:17:59 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Bob, speaking in 1st person, Dole has courage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMeulTWdqiY

Sildenifil (Viagara) maker...yep Pfizer

BIG PHARMA = BIG DOLER$

Bob Dole approves this message.


13 posted on 11/10/2020 6:26:45 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Thalidomide developed by German firm Grunenthal. Yep, they still operate...

https://www.grunenthal.com


14 posted on 11/10/2020 6:31:58 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: HighSierra5
Is it just me or does it seem a “little fishy” that a week after the election SHAZAM! we have a vaccine?

The results were known last week or earlier.

15 posted on 11/10/2020 6:33:25 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Have some Merck drugs. How about some Gardasil for your daughters.

https://www.gardasil9.com


16 posted on 11/10/2020 6:34:09 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: HighSierra5
Is it just me or does it seem a “little fishy” that a week after the election SHAZAM! we have a vaccine?

Supposedly they had the testing data by mid-October to report the "90% success rate", but held off on analyzing it until the day after the election on purpose...?
17 posted on 11/11/2020 4:52:07 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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