As Science explains:
Although the monoclonal antibodies infused into Trump were not made from or in fetal cells, Regeneron did develop that treatment with the help of a long-lived line of cells established from the kidneys of a fetus electively aborted in the Netherlands around 1972. The company relied on those widely used cells, known HEK-293 cells, to make mimics of the coronavirus spike protein. Researchers used these proteins to test the potency of antibodies found in Covid-19 patients or made in mice with a humanlike immune system.
The antiviral drug Remdesivir, which Trump took last week, was also developed with those same cell lines. The New York Times reports at least two other pharmaceutical companies working on a coronavirus vaccine—Moderna and AstraZeneca—also rely on the cells, and Johnson & Johnson is testing its vaccine using another cell line derived from fetal tissue.
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Bill Gates on Track to Grow His Fortune Through Foundation’s Ties to Vaccine Makers
Bill Gates on Track to Grow His Fortune Through Foundation’s Ties to Vaccine Makers
A telling piece in The Nation this week reports some of the conflicts of interest the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation holds in the world’s quest for a COVID-19 vaccine. According to the article, the foundation’s investments in companies working to develop COVID-19 vaccines put Gates “in a position to potentially reap considerable financial gains from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Trump’s WARP SPEED vaccine czar oversaw an infamously BOTCHED vaccination. Wonder why a THIRD of Americans want to dodge this one?
Operation Warp Speed vaccine czar oversaw infamously BOTCHED vaccine for swine flu
Of course, GSK is hardly the only drug company cutting corners. Moderna, the favorite to “win” Operation Warp Speed, has never brought a vaccine to market before, and the mRNA vaccine it is developing is a type that’s never been approved for use in humans. Worse, the company is actually skipping animal trials completely, with its chief medical officer Tal Zaks insisting that he didn’t think the intermediate step – carried out to avoid subjecting humans to unnecessary harm – was necessary.
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Take the jab or lose your job: Medical journal calls for a MANDATORY Covid vaccine
‘Noncompliance should incur a penalty’ RT | October 1, 2020
The authors of the NEJM paper hail from Yale, Stanford University, and Indiana University, all institutions that have received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has poured billions of dollars into developing multiple Covid-19 vaccines, setting up seven facilities to manufacture the leading candidates. While the US, UK, and several other countries have already paid for hundreds of millions of doses of multiple jabs, no western pharmaceutical company has yet declared victory in the vaccine race – on the contrary, the clinical trials of frontrunners like AstraZeneca and Moderna have yielded a bumper crop of troubling side effects.
Take the jab or lose your job: Medical journal calls for a MANDATORY Covid vaccine
Expressing Concerns to Moderna’s Principal Investigators
Gates Pushes Gene-Altering Technology on Seven Billion Humans
Moderna spars with U.S. scientists over COVID-19 vaccine trials
Moderna spars with U.S. scientists over COVID-19 vaccine trials
The federal government is supporting Moderna’s vaccine project with nearly half a billion dollars and has chosen it as one of the first to enter large-scale human trials.
But the company – which has never produced an approved vaccine or run a large trial – has squabbled with government scientists over the process, delayed delivering trial protocols and resisted experts’ advice on how to run the study, according to three sources familiar with the vaccine project.
The NIH claims joint ownership of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine
The NIH claims joint ownership of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine
Why it matters: Because the federal government has an actual stake in this vaccine, it could try to make the vaccine a free or low-cost public good with wide distribution, if the product turns out to be safe and effective.
Cambridge-based Moderna Inc. ships first batch of coronavirus vaccine to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Moderna currently has strategic alliances for development programs with AstraZeneca, Merck Inc. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
— Read on www.masslive.com/news/2020/02/cambridge-based-moderna-inc-ships-first-batch-of-coronavirus-vaccine-to-national-institute-of-allergy-and-infectious-disease.html
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