Posted on 11/12/2011 8:07:26 AM PST by macquire
Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor.
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“Smallpox has been completely eradicated in the natural world. Why would we need a smallpox drug?”
We don’t.
It is payola… almost half a billion dollars of my money and yours.
Just as crooked is the crooked House of Rip-offs who can say, “No money” but won’t. They are afraid of being blackmailed for their own crooked deals such as insider trading and much, much more.
Because it has probably been weaponized by terrorist regimes such as North Korean Iran etc. That virus is alive and well in someones weapons lab.
Note: This is not a defense of Obama's crony capitalism with his donors. He is still a corrupt man and always will be.
The article says we already have tons of vaccine in storage to give to all the US and half the world and it works great if given close in time to the exposure. This new boondoggle is an untested anti-viral that could be given to those exposed and not given vaccine #1 within the time period #1 works for. It’s a maybe drug for a threat so remote it is hard to believe would ever be used or even work. But, Obama’s pal gets almost a half billion of our tax bucks to sell it to our government.
I just had a thought:
I would agree with this only if the cheeky Kenyan bastard is offered up as the guinea pig. Shoot him up full smallpox germs, wait for a month or two or much longer, and see if the vaccine works.
Hey, it works for me. It would be worth yours and my ½ billion dollars.
My understanding is that there are two samples left, one in the US and one in USSR.
Everyone over the age of about 40 would have been vaccinated.
My youngest was born in 1981 and the docs had just stopped vaccinating people routinely for small pox.
I do not trust BHO and this contract makes me nervous.
You maybe correct, it could be a sample of things to come.
The CDC has contingency plans for it :
New York, New York, June 21, 2010 --
SIGA Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ: SIGA), a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to combat bio-warfare pathogens, announced today that Andy Stern, labor leader and prominent advocate for reform, joined SIGA's board of directors. Mr. Stern is the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest and fastest-growing healthcare union in North America.
Andy Stern was responsible for growing the SEIU from 1.0 million members into a powerful 2.2 million member union. Under his leadership
...Stern is referred to as one of "the chief architects of healthcare reform" in Modern Healthcare magazine's ranking of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare for 2009. Stern has been named to MH's annual "movers and shakers in healthcare" list for five years in a row.
Stern is an ardent supporter of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Stern has been a frequent visitor to the White House since Obama's election. Between Inauguration Day and February 23, 2011, Stern visited the White House 53 times.
Under Stern, the SEIU has poured millions into a group called Health Care for America NOW!
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Hey, thanks for finding this.
Ping.
Good find! I was just reading a little about this from another site, which I cannot remember right now. They were talking about Lurie, and how she should be the go-to person on the Ebola response, but she had been tied up in this scandal, and Chimerix was the small company that lost to a big Dem donor company. It went on to explain that Chimerix was working on an anti-viral compound against infectious diseases, including hemorrhagic fevers, such as Lassa, Marburg, and Ebola at the time. Think of how far they may have been, and how much of the drug they could have processed with a big ole government contract.
Corruption in this admin— they eat, sleep, and breathe it.
Ping...(ain’t no tellin’ where the money went...)
...There is a woman, her name is Dr. Nicole Lurie. There is an office at Health and Human Services that was set up ten years ago, George W. Bush Regime, created and paid for a brand new office at Health and Human Services specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to things like Ebola.
...this department funded another project in a company with huge ties to a Democrat donor, Ron Perelman, and took money away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.
So another department set up for crony corporatism, ostensibly a division of HHS to deal with outbreaks of killer diseases, and the budget for that department was used to pad a Democrat donor and his company, and the money that was given to the Democrat donor came from grants supposedly to go to a company working on an actual cure for Ebola or a serious treatment.
FDA OKs 1st drug to treat smallpox, in case of terror attack
Associated Press ^ | Jul. 13, 2018 7:08 PM EDT | Linda A. Johnson
U.S. regulators Friday approved the first treatment for smallpox — a deadly disease that was wiped out four decades ago — in case the virus is used in a terror attack. Smallpox, which is highly contagious, was eradicated worldwide by 1980 after a huge vaccination campaign. But people born since then haven’t been vaccinated, and small samples of the smallpox virus were saved for research purposes, leaving the possibility it could be used as a biological weapon. Maker SIGA Technologies of New York has already delivered 2 million treatments that will be stockpiled by the government, which partially paid for...
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