Matt Ridley has written a wonderfully optimistic piece at the Spectator about the technology leading up to the fast creation of Covid-19 vaccines around the world.
The first Covid-19 vaccine given to British people this month is not just a welcome breakthrough against a grim little enemy that has defied every other weapon we have tried, from handwashing to remdesivir and lockdowns. It is also the harbinger of a new approach to medicine altogether. Synthetic messengers that reprogram our cells to mount an immune response to almost any invader, including perhaps cancer, can now be rapidly and cheaply made.
He covers the history of development.
Katalin Karikó — the Hungarian-born scientist who doggedly pursued the idea behind this kind of medication for decades at the University of Pennsylvania before joining BioNTech — and her collaborator Drew Weissman may be the Watson and Brenner of this story. They figured out 15 years ago how to send a message in a bubble into a cell and have it read. For years they had tried putting in normal RNA and found it did not work; the body spotted it was an alien and destroyed it.What if 2020 went down in history as the year synthetic biology dealt a mortal blow to future viruses?
But by subtly modifying one of the four letters in the message (replacing uridine with pseudouridine, a chemical found in some RNAs in the body anyway), they made a version that escaped the attention of the cell’s MI5 agents. Further refinements five years ago produced a recipe that worked reliably when delivered to cells inside a tiny oily bubble. The pandemic is the first time the technique has been tried in anger, and it worked: the first two Covid vaccines, BioNTech’s and Moderna’s, rely on these messengers.
And the potentially amazing ramifications for the future.
Now the principle has been approved by regulators, there may be no need to go through the same laborious and expensive three-phase clinical trials every time. Faced with a truly lethal pandemic — with a 10 per cent mortality rate, say — the vanishingly small likelihood that a new messenger vaccine would be unsafe pales into insignificance. You could deploy it in weeks or days.
What is more, at the cost of a few billion dollars, the world may now be able to build a library of messenger vaccines for every plausible coronavirus and influenza virus with pandemic potential we can find, test them in animals and store the recipes on a hard disk, ready to go at a moment’s notice. Moderna’s vaccine was first synthesised in mid-January, before we even knew the coronavirus was coming out of China.
The full article, worth reading, is available at The Spectator.
All this hype over a vaccine that has released the data from the trials where? Please people. We don’t need a vaccine when we have cures and there are at least 3 varying from almost 100% (1 &2) down to 95% (3).
If you doubt that these are actual cures feel free to discuss it with the doctors promoting them.
1) Inhaled steroids like Budesonide
The interview with Dr. Richard Bartlett has been BANNED BY YOUTUBE:
But you can still see it here starting around the 4 minute mark:
https://banned.video/watch?id=5f06524a672706002f481047
Cheap and can be used on very sick people with serious existing health conditions.
2) Ivermectin + Doxycycline + Zinc
Professor Thomas Borody developer of the triple therapy treatment for peptic ulcers in 1987.
“It’s easier than treating the flu now”. “You can actually eradicate it”. “We know it’s curable”
http://covexit.com/we-know-its-curable-its-easier-than-treating-the-flu-professor-thomas-borody/
3) Swiss Policy Research HCQ+ Treatment Protocol (5 to 7 day regimen)
https://swprs.org/on-the-treatment-of-covid-19/
Zinc — 50 milligrams [mg] to 100 mg per day
Hydroxychloroquine — 400 mg per day
Quercetin — 500 mg to 1,000 mg per day
Bromhexine — 50 mg to 100 mg per day
Azithromycin — up to 500 mg per day
Heparin — usual dosage
I can’t find anything recent on Dr. Bartlett ….
Moderna (Gates & Fauci, etc have a BLATANT conflict of interest)
“It’s completely correct to say that NIAID will reap a profit on the Moderna/NIAID vaccine. There are 6 NIAID scientists who work for Dr. Fauci, each of whom would get $150,000/year indefinitely as their reward. So that’s $900,000 to his subordinates every year in perpetuity.” – Mary Holland, General Counsel, RFK Jr’s “Children’s Health Defense”
my goodness, if i see more one post about the flu disappearing i may explode.
the cdc stopped aggregating the states weekly mmwr reports!
they announced it on their site.
the p/i rages on same as ever. here is the latest report from the PRDH
face diapers, anti-social distancing, lock downs, etc are not slowing or stopping the flu and they are not slowing or stopping the common cold causing corona virus
that is why the cdc stopped aggregating the stats
C-19, ” a grim little enemy that has defied every other weapon we have tried” apart from hydorxychloroquine ?
Maybe I’ve read too much science fiction, but medicnes “that reprogram our cells” are a bit troubling to me, in principle. What other sorts of “reprogramming” could be done? And what guarantee do we have that there aren’t long-term adverse effects to said “reprogramming”?