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Coronavirus Vaccine: A Year Away

• Vaxxter - By James Grundvig

By James Grundvig, Investigative Reporter,  Vaxxter contributor

The first big mistake in the coronavirus pandemic emerged when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tried, but failed, to contain the outbreak in a cloak of silence. The second (and worst) mistake fell at the feet of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other institutions that have long promoted the empty marketing point of "global health security."

We are quickly learning there is no such thing.

In the latter miscalculation, we now know that a vaccine won't be developed in time to slow down, let alone contain, the novel 2019-nCoV virus. Leading vaccine experts, from Novartis' CEO Vas Narasimhan to Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, a UK-based health foundation with more than $34 billion in assets to support research, have stated as much in recent interviews with CNBC News and Der Spiegel International, respectively.

With the experts on record stating it will take more than a year to develop a vaccine, test it, confirm or adjust the formulation, mass-produce it, and then mass-distribute it, what is being done to stop the transmission of the virus?

Pandemic (Un-)Preparedness

Since the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the WHO and CDC have insisted that the only way to "save lives" is by preventing disease and not treating the host. That myopic, tunnel vision has cost thousands of lives for people who died unnecessarily due to the Ebolavirus.

I interviewed Dr. David S. Fedson, a pharmaceutical executive and clinician for much of his 50-year career. He and other scientists published studies, wrote papers and op-eds that were published or quoted by the mainstream press, from the New York Times to the Washington Post. In short, Fedson stated that "treating the host" with off-the-shelf antivirals and other drugs in combination resulted in a high probability of survival. The idea was simple: Give the dying a fighting chance to block the replication of the virus, while boosting their immune system long enough to survive and recover. This sane, logical, and ethical remedy has long been ignored.

In another example of institutional arrogance was the 2016 Zika global emergency. This crisis was again declared by the WHO without an investigation into the true cause of the birth defects in northeast Brazil.

That spring, the CDC and National Institute of Health (NIH) conducted a roadshow, claiming Zika was going to create identical clusters of birth defects in the United States. That short-term hysteria extracted more than $1.5 billion for a Zika vaccine that was abandoned in 2017 by both Sanofi and the US Army. Before Congress handed over their large share of the loot, Florida State University discovered an existing tapeworm remedy could stop Zika cold. To no avail. Neither the Obama Administration nor US health agencies had any interest in an inexpensive existing remedy that worked. It was "create a vaccine or bust." 

Similarly, in the past week, the WHO published a statement that it's seeking $675 million to "combat coronavirus." Mind you, this large sum of money is a stealth form of wealth redistribution. Its statement read, in part:

"WHO issued a call to the global community to come forward with US$675 million in funding to help some 60 low- and middle-income countries that are at significant risk of infection with the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan China prepare for possible outbreaks."

For the WHO, it's about ramping up capacity to deliver testing, masks, respirators, and medical supplies and equipment. But their declarations were not about research to repurpose treatments to help the victims.

"We are launching a strategic preparedness plan to support countries to detect and respond to cases," said Dr. Tedros [the WHO director]. "We are requesting US$ 675 million to fund the plan for the next three months, including US$ 60 million to fund WHO operations. The rest is for countries at risk."

This author has long been critical of the WHO's glad-handing and covering up for China's failed response and secrecy to the outbreak. Worst, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has refused to share the raw metadata about the genomic code of the disease, as of this writing.

But China has published a baseline code of the virus so that scientists could see what makes the 2019-nCoV tick and whether it came from a bat reservoir or from a biological lab, as many have suspected. The close proximity between the Wuhan Institute of Virology at the Wuhan City "wet market" only heightens that suspicion.

That is why the Trump Administration announced that it has deployed the National Academy of Science to investigate whether the virus was bioengineered.

Like global health security, "pandemic preparedness" is just another talking point used by the WHO to market, and then hide, its inept bureaucracy and divert attention away from how truly unprepared the global health agency is and why their "vaccine-only" solution is finally being exposed to fail.

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