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California lab says it discovered Coronavirus vaccine in 3 hours
Fox Business ^ | 02/14/2020 | Evie Fordham

Posted on 02/14/2020 9:37:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind

An American biotech company says it created a coronavirus vaccine three hours after getting access to the virus' genetic sequence in mid-January, and now scientists are racing to get the vaccine on the market in record time.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals is based in Pennsylvania, but scientists in its laboratory in San Diego made the discovery.

"We were able to rapidly construct our vaccine in a matter of about three hours once we had the DNA sequence from the virus available because of the power of our DNA medicine platform," Dr. J. Joseph Kim, Inovio's president and CEO, told FOX Business. "Our goal is to start phase one human testing in the U.S. early this summer."

China has reported 254 new daily deaths and a spike in new daily virus cases of 15,152, after new methodology was applied in the hardest-hit province of Hubei as to how cases are categorized.

Inovio's stock jumped to $5.32 a share a few days after the company announced it was selected to work on a coronavirus vaccine.

The American company is partnering with Beijing Advaccine, a Chinese company, to work on the vaccine. Inovio also received $9 million to work on the vaccine from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is backed by billionaire Bill Gates.

"We’ve done this many, many times before. The most relevant was building our vaccine against MERS virus, which is a coronavirus in the same family as COVID-19," Kim said.

Inovio took a vaccine for Zika virus from construct design to human testing in the U.S. in less than seven months, Kim said.

"We’re planning to beat our own record," he said. "Maybe we could do that in close to half that time."

Inovio is building a coalition for the "war" against COVID-19 that will require scaling up to thousands

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: california; chinavirus; chinavirusinfo; chinavirusvaccine; coronavirus; coronavirusvaccine; covid19; vaccine
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To: SeekAndFind

Why didn’t they spend the three days working on a 100 mpg carburetor?


21 posted on 02/14/2020 12:16:14 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: woodbutcher1963
It would appear that Dr. Kim is really wickud smaat.


Slightly an overachiever?
22 posted on 02/14/2020 12:21:59 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Rustybucket

“It is already past animal trials and on to human trial”

really? the article says zilch about “animal trials”, plus you can’t test a human vaccine for eithe efficacy OR safety in “animal trials” ...

and regarding human testing, that’s several months into the future according to the article:

“Our goal is to start phase one human testing in the U.S. early this summer.”

and finally, regarding your statement:

“this should cut thru red tape and have every company that can manufacture the anti-virus working OT to make it happen”

the article is talking about a vaccine, NOT an anti-viral, which are two entirely different things: a vaccine is administered to try to confer immunity to a disease, while an anti-viral is a drug that is administered to try to cure a viral infection after one has contracted the viral infection, presumably because the vaccine failed or no vaccine existed ...


23 posted on 02/14/2020 12:34:36 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Rustybucket

“Obviously the safest way is to get blood serum from those who have built up anti-bodies from the virus to further define the genome that can counteract the virus.”

you’re grossly confusing anti-bodies with genome ... you obviously have no idea what you are talking about and really should stop making such ignorant posts here ...


24 posted on 02/14/2020 12:37:05 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Billionaires


25 posted on 02/14/2020 12:47:14 PM PST by databoss
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To: SeekAndFind
Gates Foundation and World Health Organization ran a simulation three months ago, coincidentally of a coronavirus' spread. That simulation's tracking of the outbreak came up with 65 million people dead.

Will Inovio, the Bill Gates' backed company, make $5/inoculation as the vaccine might be forced on billions of young and old worldwide in the coming months?

26 posted on 02/14/2020 12:51:25 PM PST by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I still find it bothersome that they “have the vaccine”, but can’t even imagine starting human trials until the summer, over 4 months away.

Now, if it truly takes 4 months to make absolutely sure the vaccine is safe to be TRIED on humans, that is one thing.

But this feels like a regulatory hurdle.


27 posted on 02/14/2020 1:19:20 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: SeekAndFind

Just one million dollars per dose.


28 posted on 02/14/2020 3:51:56 PM PST by GingisK
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To: SeekAndFind

Pirbrite Institute (PI) filed the patent on the Coronavirus on July 23, 2015. They’ve had a vaccine for some time. Of course, PI has been supported financially by Bill Gates as well as Inovio.

With the World Health Organization and Gates Foundation Coronavirus outbreak simulation three months ago that resulted in the simulated deaths of 65 million (simulated) people, it would seem Gates may have been playing multiple angles of coronavirus, presumably for profit if not “merely” serf population reduction. Was Gatest involved in the Canadian bioweapons lab from which coronavirus was said to have been removed to be brought to the Wuhan BSL4?


29 posted on 02/14/2020 7:20:40 PM PST by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: KC-10A BOOMER

Yep - some sort of a meat patty, fried egg, cheese, shredded cabbage and their special sauce....never had one sober but when one needed something to satisfy the alcohol-soaked stomach, they hit the spot....especially if one mixed OB beer with the soju - I think they fermented it in about 20 minutes via formaldehyde...


30 posted on 02/15/2020 2:50:44 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: rx

If what you’re saying is true, the virus was man made and it was made in the USA with the help of Bill Gates!

How do you file a patent on something you did not make?

Next question... was the patent granted? If so, it would be a simple matter of asking the patent office to provide general information under FOIA.


31 posted on 02/15/2020 7:31:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
Yes, I believe it's true.

Google will lead you to the patent and vaccine info. This YT is pretty good.

32 posted on 02/15/2020 8:01:49 AM PST by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: catnipman

Really? Who among us two is uninformed?

“Genomic medicine is an emerging medical discipline that involves using genomic information about an individual as part of their clinical care (e.g. for diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making) and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use. Already, genomic medicine is making an impact in the fields of oncology, pharmacology, rare and undiagnosed diseases, and infectious disease.”

https://www.genome.gov/health/Genomics-and-Medicine


33 posted on 02/15/2020 10:51:52 AM PST by Rustybucket
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To: catnipman

“this should cut thru red tape and have every company that can manufacture the anti-virus working OT to make it happen”

the White House is pushing ahead and “moving at Trump time” on a treatment drug and are hopeful testing and production could begin “as early as the end of the month, mid-March.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/coronavirus-drug-treatment-peter-navarro

Now, the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou says that two of its researchers, Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua, have identified the pangolin as the potential source of nCoV-2019 on the basis of a genetic comparison of coronaviruses taken from the animals and from humans infected in the outbreak and other findings. The sequences are 99% similar, the researchers reported at press conference on 7 February.

Now, the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou says that two of its researchers, Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua, have identified the pangolin as the potential source of nCoV-2019 on the basis of a genetic comparison of coronaviruses taken from the animals and from humans infected in the outbreak and other findings. The sequences are 99% similar, the researchers reported at press conference on 7 February.\
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00364-2 AND

Another way a vaccine can be developed is by isolating the cells from a patient who has recovered from the disease. “These cells can then be screened [for antibodies], and the common areas of these antibodies can be reproduced to see if it is an active and effective vaccine,” says Leproust.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200210-coronavirus-finding-a-cure-to-fight-the-symptoms

the drug, called remdesivir, was responsible for his recovery, but other research has shown it is effective against the Mers coronavirus in mice. The drug is known as a broad-spectrum antiviral, meaning it can block the ability of a number of viruses from making copies of themselves.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200210-coronavirus-finding-a-cure-to-fight-the-symptoms


34 posted on 02/15/2020 11:17:45 AM PST by Rustybucket
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To: Rustybucket

“Who among us two is uninformed?”

you are ... i said you were grossly confused about genome and antibodies in blood serum, and you still are ...

your link about genomic medicine didn’t mention the word anti-body a single time ...

basically, you don’t have a clue about what you keep posting about ...


35 posted on 02/15/2020 11:19:51 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

I disagree.


36 posted on 02/15/2020 11:54:36 AM PST by Rustybucket
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