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Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes

posted by martyb on Sunday March 15 2020, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-a-stab-at-it dept.

quietus writes:

German company CureVac has received a rather strange offer from the current White House.

On March 3, CureVac's CEO was invited to the White House, for a meeting with President Trump, Vice Pence and several members of the Coronavirus Task Force. Asked for when a vaccine could be ready, he estimated that a potential candidate could be ready within a few months. Apparently, that triggered the members of the meeting so much, that they've now offered to buy the company, at whatever price.

One condition though: production would be exclusively for the United States.

The move is not exactly one to gain popularity, and follows on the heels of the President's worrying statement that "a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @04:25AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @04:25AM (#971787)

    So I tried reading more about this and I found this interesting

    https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-vaccine-trial-no-animal-testing.html [livescience.com]

    I'll have to spend more time reading about mRNA vaccines. Do you have any suggested studies that indicates how effective they are?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @04:52AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @04:52AM (#971797)

    OK so I began reading part of this article, I will try to read more later, but it does mention some of the difficulties that these types of vaccines used to have and some of the progress that was made towards making them more effective than before.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446947/ [nih.gov]

    These still seem to be rather new so perhaps more testing is still needed but it looks like there has been improvements.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @06:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @06:23PM (#971959)

      Though, come to think of it more, I would think a Recombinant vaccine might be better. It seems like it would be difficult to control/predict how much protein would be produced from inserting RNA into the body and expecting the cells to make proteins from it vs just inserting a controlled amount of protein into the body to begin with (but I'm no expert, just guessing).