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The scientist behind Pfizer’s Covid vaccine says a flu pandemic is only a matter of time
STAT news ^ | November 16, 2022 | Olivia Goldhill

Posted on 11/20/2022 5:06:36 PM PST by DoodleBob

BOSTON — Even after leading the charge combating the worst pandemic in a century, vaccine researcher Kathrin Jansen doesn’t feel that she can relax. Another pandemic — this one based on an influenza virus — is inevitable, Jansen said at the annual STAT Summit on Tuesday.

“Before SARS-CoV-2, we had worried about pandemic flu. And just because corona came first doesn’t mean flu is just sitting there,” Jansen, who recently retired as head of vaccine R&D at Pfizer, told STAT senior writer Helen Branswell.

An influenza-based pandemic is only a matter of time, Jansen added: “The question is, does it come tomorrow or 50 years from now?”

She called for better global surveillance of viruses and communication infrastructure so that, when a new and highly transmissible or dangerous flu virus does emerge, scientists and policymakers learn about it and can respond as quickly as possible.

Jansen made the comments during a panel conversation alongside Jacqueline Miller, therapeutic area head for infectious disease at Moderna, who joined the company in May 2020 and worked to develop the company’s Covid vaccine.

Both scientists emphasized just how challenging it was to create mRNA vaccines at such a frantic pace. Balancing unprecedented speed with safety created a need to constantly reevaluate data, said Miller.

“We had some difficult conversations about the best way to do this. What’s the best way to make sure we’re seeing data before we take that next step, but keeping in mind people are dying every day,” she said. “I got pushed every day: What can you do differently?”

Branswell asked Miller and Jansen if they had any ”oh shi-” moments during this time. “Only every day,” replied Miller.

Back in March 2020, Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said a Covid-19 vaccine would be available within 12 to 18 months. Even the scientists tasked with creating these shots were unconvinced such a timeline was possible.

“When we were first faced with the situation to develop this vaccine in 2020, my first comment was, ‘That’s crazy,’” said Jansen. But Pfizer’s chief executive, Albert Bourla, told her she could use any resources she wanted to make it happen within a year. “I thought under those circumstances, we’ll give it a shot because it’s a totally different game to play,” said Jansen.

Both Miller and Jansen said that, having made the shots that provided protection to so many, there’s room for improvement and to create vaccines with more durability. “This was a product that was brought forward very quickly to address an urgent public health priority. That doesn’t mean we won’t iterate on it,” said Miller.

With time, Covid vaccines will likely be standard annual shots, similar to annual flu vaccines. “There’s hope we can improve over time and hopefully get us in a decent situation where it’s more like influenza: Every year you get your flu shot, get your Covid shot,” said Jansen. As this pandemic becomes more manageable, however, the flu, in turn, may become more like Covid.


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To: BipolarBob
"Yes, that “gain of function” thingy is very handy to de-populating the erf to sustainable MORE EASILY CONTROLABLE levels."

There, corrected it.

21 posted on 11/20/2022 6:00:21 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Jane Long

Indeed, they are a-pu$hin’.


22 posted on 11/20/2022 6:08:13 PM PST by lee martell
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To: DoodleBob

”An influenza-based pandemic is only a matter of time, Jansen added:

“The question is, when can we find or develop the proper one.. tomorrow or 50 years from now?”

I have added the missing words to his quote.

Please Prove me Wrong


23 posted on 11/20/2022 6:12:16 PM PST by algore
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To: Jonty30

Yeah, a few years back they were digging up 1918 Spanish Flu victims from permafrost. If it breaks out, they need to be torn limb from limb by the local populace.


24 posted on 11/20/2022 6:13:38 PM PST by curious7
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To: curious7

I always wondered why they did that....


25 posted on 11/20/2022 6:34:55 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies. Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Probably a year or two, AFTER the elites have cut world-wide food production, creating much family, expanded the war in Ukraine into a Europe-wide affair, creating death and the destruction of homes and the means of production of consumer necessities, and cut petroleum and electricity production, to further increase the misery of the 'non-elites'.

War, famine and disease complement each other, building on each other. The elites gin up the war, cause starvation and disease is inevitable. I'm sure that Bill-zebub Gates and his partner 'der Führer und Reichskanzler' K(louse) 'Erst Stavro Blofeld', er, Schwab, are rubbing their hands with glee, at the thought of hundreds of millions of humans dying!

I do not know if any of these elites realize that they are minions of satan, or if they are just blind to satan's hand in all this. We either serve God, or we serve satan. If we are NOT serving God, we ARE serving the devil, whether we believe so, or not!

The chorus of Bob Dylan'ss Gotta Serve Somebody goes:

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody

These elites haven't figured that out yet. Too bad for them AND, of course, HUMANITY! .

26 posted on 11/20/2022 6:36:53 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Secret Agent Man; A Formerly Proud Canadian

Sorry, ‘family’ should read ‘famine’. Autocorrect changed it and I missed the change


27 posted on 11/20/2022 6:39:47 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: DoodleBob

The world does need a pile of dead bodies. Not from a pandemic but due to average people planning excellent random takedowns of the elites. That is what they fear. If I was so inclined, I’m sure I could get a few before being caught. Not my idea of fun but don’t back normies into a corner with little to lose either.


28 posted on 11/20/2022 6:40:11 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: wgmalabama

You seem stable.


29 posted on 11/20/2022 6:46:59 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: DoodleBob

Everything is just a matter of time, drug pusher.


30 posted on 11/20/2022 6:50:18 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: DoodleBob
Even after leading the charge combating the worst pandemic in a century, vaccine researcher Kathrin Jansen doesn’t feel that she can relax. Another pandemic — this one based on an influenza virus — is inevitable, Jansen said at the annual STAT Summit on Tuesday.

With the left, their alarms are actually threats.

31 posted on 11/20/2022 7:28:06 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom; mewzilla

Jansen was born in East Germany, but moved to West Germany at age 2. Even as a child she exhibited a keen interest in the natural world, and a tendency to “bring home all kinds of creatures,” she has recalled. As a young scientist at Merck, she focused on a vaccine against HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer. Her colleagues gave the work a 10% chance of success, but Jansen persevered. Gardasil, approved by the FDA in 2006, is 100% effective against HPV.

COVID AND HPV. She's a real piece of...work.

32 posted on 11/20/2022 7:48:15 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
(from the article):" An influenza-based pandemic is only a matter of time, Jansen added: “The question is, does it come tomorrow or 50 years from now?”

"She called for better global surveillance of viruses and communication infrastructure so that, when a new and highly transmissible or dangerous flu virus does emerge,
scientists and policymakers learn about it and can respond as quickly as possible."

Jansen made the comments during a panel conversation alongside Jacqueline Miller, therapeutic area head for infectious disease at Moderna,
who joined the company in May 2020 and worked to develop the company’s Covid vaccine."

"Both scientists emphasized just how challenging it was to create mRNA vaccines at such a frantic pace.
Balancing unprecedented speed with safety created a need to constantly reevaluate data, said Miller. "

(My Comment) : Let us not forget that the covid vaccine was part of a two-part "experiment":
#1). The covid vaccine produced by Pfizer was NEVER tested against the covid infection , prior to its release to the public.
#2). The mRNA method of biologic injection remains experimental and is in need of further research.
These two simultaneous experiments were foisted on the public, and later mandated by government, without any in-depth clinical study, in violation to prior medical procedure,
and may permanently alter the human immunity genes,the results of which remains unknown at this time.
Defund any "gain of function" research, now. It's still too dangerous, and is subject possible to accidental release into the 'wild'.

33 posted on 11/21/2022 6:09:12 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Defund any "gain of function" research, now. It's still too dangerous, and is subject to possible accidental or deliberate release into the 'wild'.

As a side note, congress forbid funding in the USA. Fauchi responded by covertly funding research in Wu Han!

34 posted on 11/21/2022 6:31:35 AM PST by null and void (Cujo would have been a very short story if the family owned a gun!)
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To: wgmalabama

You seem nice...


35 posted on 11/21/2022 6:37:03 AM PST by null and void (Cujo would have been a very short story if the family owned a gun!)
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To: Fuzz

I try. Not sure why they state out in the open there are too many people. That Mother Earth needs fewer maggots taking resources. Keep assuming they don’t include you in the massive cull. Just saying if someone wants you or me dead how would you react.


36 posted on 11/21/2022 10:49:52 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: null and void

I try to mind my own business but these people keep flying into Davos to talk about useless eaters destroying the world that need to be “vaccinated”. 1+1 =2. I think they want us dead. Not fuzz. He is useful.


37 posted on 11/21/2022 10:52:45 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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