Posted on 05/25/2020 8:37:20 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
"The billionaire and philanthropist explained that a vaccine could arrive anytime between nine to 18 months, focusing on new RNA and DNA platforms."
A bevy of potential drugs manufactured or repurposed to treat the coronavirus are under development, but Business Insider points out that eight to 10 of the 115 different vaccine candidates look promising, according to Bill Gates.
Gates, whose foundation is spearheading funding and research for a coronavirus vaccine, authored a blog post Thursday that explained the process of how vaccines work and what is needed to develop an effective treatment.
"The most promising candidates take a variety of approaches to protecting the body against COVID-19," Gates explains. "To understand what exactly that means, it’s helpful to remember how the human immune system works."
He points out that vaccines work to teach the human body how to defeat a foreign pathogen without getting sick first. There are two major types: inactivated and live vaccines.
Inactivated vaccines contain dead viral pathogens, whereas live vaccines contain weakened, or "attenuated" pathogens. Gates notes that they are "highly effective" but prone to side effects and both are time-consuming.
Gates's alternative is using two new approaches that some of the candidates are undertaking: RNA and DNA vaccinations.
Both are similar in how they work. But RNA vaccines specifically inject the antigen of a pathogen, or the molecules found on a pathogen's surface, into the human body, giving it the genetic code needed to replicate and produce that antigen. By doing so, these new antigens will be attacked by the body's immune system, and it learns how to defeat these molecular structures if they are ever introduced into the body again.
"You essentially turn your body into its own vaccine manufacturing unit," Gates writes.
DNA vaccines are similar, but feature a different type of genetic material and method of administration, according to the blog post.
SCIENTISTS AREN'T SURE IF RNA PLATFORMS ARE EFFECTIVE FOR TREATMENT FOR VACCINES, AND GATES ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE MAY NOT BE A PERFECT CORONAVIRUS VACCINE BY THE TIME WE NEED IT.
"If we were designing the perfect vaccine, we’d want it to be completely safe and 100 percent effective. It should be a single dose that gives you lifelong protection, and it should be easy to store and transport. I hope the COVID-19 vaccine has all of those qualities, but given the timeline we’re on, it may not," he writes.
Gates predicts that the vaccine that is at least 70 percent viable will be enough to stop the outbreak, and that one will be ready in about 18 months. The primary challenge will be to see if the vaccine can work well in elderly patients, as they tend to be more immunocompromised.
Additionally, about 7 billion doses of the vaccine will need to be distributed globally, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation working with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on how to effectively deploy medicine.
"It might be a bit hard to see right now, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We’re doing the right things to get a vaccine as quickly as possible," Gates concludes. "In the meantime, I urge you to continue following the guidelines set by your local authorities. Our ability to get through this outbreak will depend on everyone doing their part to keep each other safe."
Uhm, no...
This is the part that bothers me the most. In western countries the testing has stopped Gates evil plots a number of times. Biggest one I know about was the vaccine called iFlu was stopped that gates financed. I don't know how many times he got them trough.
I’ll consider the vaccine 6 months after Gates, his entire family, Obama and the Clintons, and the CEO’s of the Totalitarian Data FAAGYTs* are all vaccinated with it, preferably in the eyeballs.
* (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Youtube, Twitter).
It’s over. The shutdowns now are politics.
https://www.890kdxu.com/uk-researchers-warn-of-only-50-percent-success-for-covid-vaccine-trial/
The main issue, they say, is that the virus may be disappearing too fast for the studies to produce “meaningful results.”
“It is a race, yes. But it’s not a race against the other guys. It’s a race against the virus disappearing, and against time,” Professor Hill, 61, told the Telegraph. “But at the moment, there’s a 50 per cent chance that we get no result at all. We’re in the bizarre position of wanting Covid to stay, at least for a little while. But cases are declining.”
Hill, director of the Oxford University Jenner Institute, told the Telegraph that in the second phase of testing, he might expect fewer than 50 people to catch the virus. If the total number of infected participants is below 20, then results may be useless.
He does have a weird body shape but it could just be that clingy sweater he is wearing.
Can someone tell me why anyone cares about a computer company founder’s opinions on health related matters?
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Because he has been inventing viruses since Win 3.0.
From the man who brought us Vista comes the world’s first DNA altering vaccine.
I can potentially see where, like in a sci fi movie, this is the vaccine that in 6 months time mutates everyone into a zombie ala “I am Legend”.
May be. Interesting!
No! You won’t hear the “click”.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.. please disregard counsels entire opening statement, with the exception of thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.. please disregard counsels entire opening statement, with the exception of thank you.
Despicable nefarious scum working together to control.
As if I’m going to take health advice from a guy whose whole career has been producing buggy software.
It's the Vaccine of Death.
#VOD
Guess what depopulation advocate Bill Gates wants to do to your DNA.
May all good people reject his poison.
Gates needs to face reality. The non-existing solution of a vaccine is NOT the best solution. That would requite 350,000,000 shots in just the US, alone. Having the Tooth Fairy make all persons immune with no shots would be even better yet. I can’t understand why he doesn’t propose that, instead.
And he can keep his vaccine.
The guy who ran a company famous for its buggy software (remember when the Windows Update program broke and it could not download a new update to fix itself?) speaks out about when there will be a vaccine, and how it should work, and everyone bows down and accepts his infinite wisdom. But DJTrump hopes to have a vaccine by the end of 2020 and they dump on him!
How did his money alone make him an expert on matters he has no expertise in? It didn’t. He is no expert.
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