Posted on 02/20/2020 10:33:28 AM PST by TigerClaws
A Texas-based genetic engineering company has finished developing a coronavirus vaccine, according to new reports.
Scientists at Greffex Inc. — which has a corporate headquarters in Houston and a laboratory in Aurora, Colorado — completed the vaccine this week, company president and CEO John Price told the Houston Business Journal.
Now the vaccine will move to animal testing by the necessary government agencies — the FDA in the US and similar regulatory bodies in China and other heavily affected countries, according to the report.
For safety reasons, Greffex did not use a living or killed virus to form the vaccine, according to Price. Instead, adenovirus-based vector vaccines, which are widely employed against various infectious diseases or cancers, were used, the report noted.
“The trick in making a vaccine is can you scale the vaccine that you’ve made to be able to make a certain number of doses, can you test that vaccine quickly and efficiently and then can you get it into patients,” Price told local outlet KHOU 11. “And that’s where we have an edge as well on the other companies that are out there.”
The vaccine is the product of an $18.9 million contract Greffex received in September 2019 from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, aimed at fighting infectious threats, the Business Journal reported.
If the vaccine wins government approval, Greffex will give it away for free to the hardest-hit countries, Price said.
More than 2,100 people have died as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, with all but 11 of those deaths in mainland China. Worldwide, more than 75,700 people have been infected.
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Better add a zero.
they were saying it could take 1 1/2 year to get one-
Send it to China and go straight to human trials. I’m sure they won’t mind violating our FDA testing protocols.
I saw this on local Austin TV. ...this morning, however, last week a Co in San Diego claimed they had the vaccine. ...
Somebody is not truthful.
> and a laboratory in Aurora, Colorado
yeah not creepy at all
Trump’s fault...………..impeach him {satire}|
95% of the time is going to be meeting FDA regulations. With modern gene editing technology creating a vaccine is the easy part.
“Greffex will give it away for free to the hardest-hit countries...” And then charge a $1,000 a shot to people of the country that paid for the development.
ah that’s true- forgot that part
Greffex is a private company so I don’t see an incentive for them to pull a scam, however I believe the other company is public with a penny stock and has a history of BS press releases.
The vaccine is the product of an $18.9 million contract Greffex received in September 2019 from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, aimed at fighting infectious threats, the Business Journal reported.
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If it works, that would be a bargain for the taxpayer.
Or more likely so those people can get their hands on the vaccine for their young and elderly relatives.
Well somebody is lying.
Either you have it or you don’t.
Enough of the PC games. .
Making a vaccine that doesn't kill half the people injected with it is the hard part.
uh?
Forgt the other companies name at this time but researched them the 1st day they announced and noticed their stock(penny) was all over the board and has been for years.
News moves and insiders know how to play that game.
These guys have no reason to manipulate and the ‘give it fro free” is an add on
OK, that’s great. Now how about a vaccine against the common cold? (yeah yeah, I know there’s hundreds of varieties and they change...)
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