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Coronavirus Vaccine Available By Next Month, Chinese Scientists Reveal (Under Their Own National Regulations)
IBT ^ | 03/11/2020 | Arthur Villasanta

Posted on 03/11/2020 10:23:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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China again says it's moving ahead with developing new vaccines to combat COVID-19 -- which might make it into production by 2021 -- but the only drug right now that's actually helping cure coronavirus patients in China is an American-made drug originally developed to fight Ebola virus disease (EVD).

Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Science and Technology Development Centre of the National Health Commission (NHC), said China is still developing vaccines for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

“Our different approaches [to vaccines] are steadily advancing and [we are] following national laws and regulations [in our development],” said Zheng, reports South China Morning Post. “According to our estimates, we are hopeful that in April some of the vaccines [that are being developed] will enter clinical research or they would be of use in emergency situations.”

China's national regulations mandate vaccines developed for major public health emergencies can be deployed for urgent use under specified conditions. That is, if the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) considers the benefits of the treatment outweigh the risks.

The candidate vaccine that might move the fastest to human clinical trials, however, isn't a Chinese-made vaccine but one developed by the American biotech firm Moderna, Inc. based in Massachusetts. This new synthetic messenger RNA (or mRNA) nucleic acid vaccine was created by Moderna in only 42 days Sars-CoV-2 was sequenced by Chinese scientists in January.

Moderna delivered the first batch of its vaccine for the first phase of human trials in February. It plans to start the clinical trial in April.

These tests will determine if Moderna's experimental vaccine based on messenger RNA (mRNA) can help defeat SARS-CoV-2. Moderna sent vaccine vials from its Massachusetts manufacturing plant to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Maryland. NIAID, which will launch the first human tests in April, said it finished manufacturing about 500 vials on February 7.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) expects to start a clinical trial involving up to 25 healthy volunteers. The human trials will determine if two doses of the new vaccine are safe and can induce an immune response likely to protect against SARS-CoV-2.

NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said initial results from the human trials might become available in July or August. He also said even if the first study is positive, the new vaccine might not become widely available until 2021 since more studies and regulatory clearances are mandatory.

“The only way you can completely suppress an emerging infectious disease is with a vaccine,” said Dr. Fauci. “If you want to really get it quickly, you’re using technologies that are not as time-honored as the standard, what I call antiquated, way of doing it."

The only drug, however, being used to treat Chinese taken ill by COVID-19 is remdesivir, a drug made by U.S. firm Gilead Sciences in California. A new clinical study said remdesivir "could be an effective treatment for 2019-nCoV and should be formally investigated as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of 2019-nCoV pneumonia."

In early February, Remdesivir entered clinical trials in Wuhan on patients with SARS-CoV-2. It was previously tested in two trials in China on patients with moderate and severe symptoms of SARS-CoV-2, said Merdad Parsey, Gilead’s chief medical officer.

The trials are being conducted at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan under Phase III conditions. Gilead Sciences is shipping enough doses to treat 500 patients and is accelerating production in case the clinical trials prove successful.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday has said remdesivir might be the most promising drug for treating SARS-CoV-2. China is also working with Gilead on tests for remdesivir.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: china; chloroquine; coronavirus; fakenews; moderna; remdesivir; vaccine
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To: Hambone 1934

“””””””Exactly....Maybe they wanted to show the world ,see how fast we can kill you.....”””””””””””

Scrap those tariffs or we will kill you some more.


21 posted on 03/11/2020 10:45:53 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Black Agnes

I agree with that and I don’t think I want to take a vaccine that the Chinese make....


22 posted on 03/11/2020 10:47:58 AM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: SeekAndFind

Could retire and live on a grand scale - like royalty - if I had a penny for every time someone claimed a vaccine or cure. Last week the “Magic Jews” (Israel’s going to cure it!) was the big thing, for example. Tons of cure claims online.


23 posted on 03/11/2020 10:48:35 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: SeekAndFind

Still we are still doing things based on 50 year old rules. The process could sped up by at 50% and still be safe using modern day supercomputer AI models and new streamlined testing. It’s likely takes months just to process the paperwork.


24 posted on 03/11/2020 10:51:39 AM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: LouieFisk

Israel’s vaccine will likely be the same one they use a year from now. This thing is going to die off soon once summer heat and longer daylight hours.


25 posted on 03/11/2020 10:53:54 AM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: angmo

If it was a bioweapon, then it is logical to think that a vaccine would have been created along with the bioweapon.

So if the Chinese magically produce a vaccine six months before the most optimistic estimates for finding one, I think that would lend some credence to the bioweapon hypothesis.


26 posted on 03/11/2020 10:55:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

One, a vaccine candidate is not likely to be viable for a year. You have to test it. Then you need to make a boat load of the stuff. Then you need to get it to everyone. That is a year at the earliest.

Two, St. Patrick’s day parade will not pass on the virus. True revilers will have inoculated themselves to the point that no virus could survive in their bodies. “I Love You Man!”


27 posted on 03/11/2020 11:03:16 AM PDT by poinq
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To: poinq

RE: True revilers will have inoculated themselves to the point that no virus could survive in their bodies

How does this “inoculation” (note the quotes) work?


28 posted on 03/11/2020 11:04:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
Sure, I'll be the first one in line to get a Chinese made vaccine for a virus most likely created as a bioweapon in a Chinese lab.

NOT.

29 posted on 03/11/2020 11:08:41 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: null and void
"No safety studies.
No efficacy studies.
No testing whatsoever.
No problem..."

Since you didn't qualify that, let me help you out since I know you don't want to create any FUD. Gileads drug remdesivir is being used as part of phase III testing. So safety and efficacy is know in a smaller controlled group. Phase III will break out into multiple test sites in much larger scale of patients. Sites are in Japan and China. Also the National Institute of health is using the drug in limited use in a Nebraska Medical facility. I believe the drug was created for a similar virus, not specifically for Corona.

30 posted on 03/11/2020 11:17:51 AM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well you go to the bar and order a Jameson and Guinness chaser. Repeat several times. After each third time you piss. Preferably in a restroom. After the ninth time your inoculated.


31 posted on 03/11/2020 11:22:03 AM PDT by poinq
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To: SeekAndFind

We will have several made in America Vaccines for coronavirus:

Kaiser Seattle is in the process of recruiting volunteers for:

First coronavirus vaccine trial in the US is recruiting volunteers:

By Nicoletta Lanese - Staff Writer a day ago

Forty-five people will be enrolled in the preliminary safety trial of the new vaccine.

Researchers in Seattle have begun recruiting healthy volunteers to participate in a clinical trial for an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, according to news reports.

The vaccine, developed by the biotechnology company Moderna Therapeutics, was initially sent to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Maryland on Feb. 24, according to The Wall Street Journal. The agency anticipates launching a clinical trial by the end of April and will sponsor the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute to conduct the testing, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci told The Wall Street Journal.

Forty-five healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55 will be enrolled in the initial trial, which aims to determine whether the vaccine triggers an immune response, and whether the given dose causes adverse side effects, according to a description on ClinicalTrials.gov.

https://www.livescience.com/us-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-recruiting.html


32 posted on 03/11/2020 11:34:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Polticalwire.com is naming the Wuhan virus as BidenÂ’s running mate, they are gleeful.)
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To: RedMominBlueState

Stargate SG1, the Aschen.


33 posted on 03/11/2020 11:38:44 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: angmo

“I have a tinfoil mask.”

Well, that makes 2 of us.


34 posted on 03/11/2020 11:49:58 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: DAC21
Agreed! Remdesivir has been through major parts of the process.

But, Remdesivir is a drug to treat Wuhan virus.

The Chinese are talking about a vaccine to prevent infections with the Wuhan Virus.

Thanks for reminding us, though!

35 posted on 03/11/2020 11:51:34 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Belated ping...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

36 posted on 03/11/2020 11:53:25 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Boogieman
If it was a bioweapon, then it is logical to think that a vaccine would have been created along with the bioweapon.

I would assess Covid-19 as an early-stage research experiment that escaped from the lab, rather than a finished bioweapon.

Add in some bureaucratic infighting, high-stakes finger-pointing, self-deception, and then panic, and here we are today. With all the propaganda and incentives for deception, the Chinese can no longer determine what is loose in their country.

The Chinese do not have a vaccine, nor do they have effective cures. Nor will they develop any. It will be up to Western nations to clean up this mess.

37 posted on 03/11/2020 11:56:59 AM PDT by flamberge (The wheels keep turning)
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To: null and void

“Coronavirus Vaccine Available By Next Month”

“China again says it’s moving ahead with developing new vaccines to combat COVID-19 — which might make it into production by 2021”

I see a mixed message there.


38 posted on 03/11/2020 11:58:44 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: babble-on
What possible reason would they have to lie?

Yeah, LOL.

Reminds me of: I always tell the truth & I never lie. If you don't believe me, just ask me.

39 posted on 03/11/2020 12:00:32 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: DAC21

The gilead drug was created for ebola.


40 posted on 03/11/2020 12:06:23 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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