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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".
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday March 16 2020, @06:25PM
Sometimes it's worth going off the beaten track. A vet of my acquaintance came up with a stellar treatment for canine distemper (and I've actually seen it work) ... using of all things, Newcastle vaccine for chickens.
https://edbond.com/distemper/ [edbond.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.