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Post by Wayne Hall on May 23, 2020 9:48:02 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Nov 7, 2020 22:23:39 GMT -5
Back in December of 2010, The Gates Foundation collaborated with the WHO, UNICEF and the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in establishing the Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration (GHLLDVC). Their Global Vaccine Action Plan paved the way for the development of an RNA vaccine platform over the next decade. In Bill’s own words: “We were planning to use it to make vaccines for diseases that affect the poor like malaria, but now it’s looking like one of the most promising options for COVID. The first candidate to start human trials was an RNA vaccine created by a company called Moderna.” Dr Fauci, director of the NIAID, is partnered with Moderna Inc to develop a vaccine: “Notable about the Fauci-Gates Moderna coronavirus vaccine, mRNA-1273, is that it has been rolled out in a matter of weeks, not years, and on February 24 went directly to Fauci’s NIH for tests on human guinea pigs, not on mice as normal.” Traditional vaccines use inactivated or live, attenuated pathogens that are purported to teach the body to defeat a pathogen without getting sick. The immune system produces antibodies which attach to antigens on the surface of a pathogen, signalling to the body to attack the invader. An RNA vaccine works in a different fashion by providing the genetic code needed for the body to produce the antigen itself. Bill again: “When the antigens appear on the outside of your cells, your immune system attacks them—and learns how to defeat future intruders in the process. You essentially turn your body into its own vaccine manufacturing unit.” Comment by Dylan Jones: The RNA vaccine causes your cells to produce antigens on the outside and your immune system responds by attacking them. Your immune system attacks its own cells, even the healthy ones. This sounds a lot like a cytokine storm – when your immune system gets out of control leading to over-inflammation damaging organs and even death. Does the enthusiasm about these RNA and DNA vaccines have anything to do with the point that they are much faster to manufacture and so fit much better into a compressed timeline of 18 months rather than 5 years.
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Post by Wayne Hall on Feb 14, 2021 21:50:31 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Jul 17, 2021 23:46:46 GMT -5
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