Posted on 10/20/2021 5:34:39 PM PDT by algore
Fans of the television series The Great British Bake Off have long marveled at the skill contestants show during the dreaded "technical challenge" — for which they are given a basket with all the ingredients needed to make a highly unusual dish but a set of instructions that are often as vague as, "Bake until ready."
Now a team of scientists at a pharmaceutical startup in South Africa is essentially confronting the same type of test — except the stakes are life and death.
The World Health Organization has hired the company, called Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, as part of a $100 million plan to figure out how to make an mRNA vaccine against COVID that is as close as possible to the version produced by Moderna.
Until recently, Afrigen specialized in developing veterinary vaccines using fairly traditional methods. Now, says Afrigen's managing director, Petro Treblanche, the company's labs are a hive of research into the cutting-edge technology behind mRNA vaccines.
"You will see scientists in white coats and some with full personal protective equipment [suits] operating a bioreactor to make the actual DNA," says Treblanche. "You will see microbiology clean rooms where testing is taking place. You will see stability chambers where some of the products are put in to understand how stable they are in different environments of humidity and temperature."
Once Afrigen has sorted out all the complicated steps to make Moderna's shot on an industrial scale, WHO and other partners plan to pay Afrigen to become a teaching center.
"We call it a 'technology transfer hub,' " says Martin Friede, a WHO official
"Manufacturers from around the world will be invited to come and learn the entire process. So this will accelerate the availability of the technology, not to one manufacturer but to many manufacturers."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
This should be against agreed upon patent law.
I don’t think there’s a large group of illiterate central African villagers who are dumb enough to take a jab from the globull elites who are “only looking out for their best interests”...
So Pfizer wouldn’t give them the recipe either?
Why do they want to steal Moderna’s version so badly?
The good news is that according to the article Moderna said they would not enforce their patent during the “Pandemic”
Hopefully this means the “pandemic” will be over soon.
It’s all about the $. If it was really about health and science, why wasn’t the recipe shared with the scientific community before it was approved?
Moderna SHOULD protect its intellectual property and the American government SHOULD support them in that. I’m sure Biden’s America-hating puppet masters would like to give biological warfare defensive technology to America’s enemies just as they’ve given them nuclear and rocket technology.
It’s my understanding that in order to get a patent, you have to provide the formula and production methods. If these vaccines are not patented, then how did they get approved?
The new vaccine will be derived from boiled missionaries.
....... HA ..... I'm not saying you're a Conspiracy Theorist ...... But Heck ...... That actually makes a lot of sense. (see what I did there) .... The brain trust of Afrigen Biologics would more than likely be hard set to find a design for a standard Band-Aid let alone successfully reverse engineer an mRNA Vaccine ....
You're kidding, right? They'll blame Moderna, and demand a huge pay-out.
P-Marlowe wrote:
“It’s my understanding that in order to get a patent, you have to provide the formula and production methods. If these vaccines are not patented, then how did they get approved?”
Pingout of p-marlowe’s question!
It undoubtedly is against that law. I don’t see many governments giving a fat rat’s patoot about the law anymore. As long as it helps the BBB agenda anything goes.
Who doesn’t want a “vaccine” cooked up in a lab in Africa for a virus that was cooked up in China?
Because...
they are lying about the contents and manufacturing processes, which the general public would reject if only they knew... fully knew...
Why didn’t the WHO pay someone to steal the J&J formula, the Astrazeneca formula or the Pfizer formula? There’s a reason why the WHO wants the Moderna formula.
You think somebody will get a large payout to keep silent about what they discover?
That said, are there any of the players you do trust?
There’s so many things about this scheme that stink to high heaven. NPR is simply too filled with hacks and cranks to see it.
Globalist UN cares nothing about intellectual property rights.
This Afrigen managing director’s comments were nonsensical, also.
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