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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA potential coronavirus vaccine funded by Bill Gates is set to begin testing in people
with the first patient expected to get it todayA small Pennsylvania biotech company is planning to start injecting healthy volunteers with a potential coronavirus vaccine, after receiving regulatory clearance to start clinical testing.
Researchers plan to dose the first person Monday. The experimental vaccine was developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals, with the effort receiving funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
Inovio's candidate, called INO-4800, is the second potential coronavirus vaccine to start human trials in the US. The Massachusetts biotech Moderna started dosing in mid-March for its own safety trial.
Anthony Fauci, the longtime leader of the National Institutes of Health's infectious disease unit, has repeatedly stated it will take at least a year to know if any vaccine is safe and effective against the virus.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/a-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-funded-by-bill-gates-is-set-to-begin-testing-in-people-with-the-first-patient-expected-to-get-it-today/ar-BB12e01f?li=BBnb7Kz
msongs
(67,395 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Why are they saying it could take a year? Is that because the trials will take that long to prove if they are effective or not?
JCMach1
(27,556 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)Don't put all your eggs in one basket, and all that
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)On edit: He addresses the funding at 17:40....and he's funding the top SEVEN, not five. Expedition is the operative word.
crickets
(25,963 posts)ancianita
(36,029 posts)... a few more months for testing...
... a few months after that for mass production ...
... all the pandemic logistics "problems" will be figured out by then, so the leftover immunized herd can fire up the realreal economy so billionaires can get back to doing what they do best: devalue, overwork, tax, and destroy Earthlings and Earth for profit.
And have privatized education ready for future younguns. Got to keep the "market values" tradition alive cuz the children are the future.
Back to "life."