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The idea is to make “prototype” vaccines to protect against viruses from about 20 families that might spark a new pandemic.
“If we get the funding, which I believe we will, it likely will start in 2022,” Dr. Fauci said, adding that he has been promoting the idea “in discussions with the White House and others.”
The prototype vaccines project is the brainchild of Dr. Barney Graham, deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He presented the idea in February of 2017 at a private meeting of institute directors.
Year after year, viruses had threatened to turn into pandemics, Dr. Graham said: the H1N1 swine flu in 2009, Chikungunya in 2012, MERS in 2013, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2016.
Each time scientists scrambled to try to make a vaccine. Their only success was a partial one, with an Ebola vaccine that helped control the epidemic but would not work against other Ebola strains. The other epidemics waned before the vaccines could be made or tested.
When he heard Dr. Graham’s pitch in 2017, Dr. Fauci was inspired. “It struck me and others in the executive committee as something that is really doable,” Dr. Fauci said
Dr. Graham published a review paper outlining the proposal in Nature Immunology in 2018. But without the urgency of a threatening pandemic, his idea remained just that.
Now, though, many think the time has come.
originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
How exactly is this bad, they’ve been stocking stuff and maintaining genetic blueprints for awhile now.
In the world we live in, with some of these pathogens, especially bacteria and maybe even viruses. This is the future, you develop a vaccine or therapy for that specific patient to effectively neutralize that pathogen. Phage therapy is a popular new one for surgical patients.
Why do this? Because if you treat the specific pathogen in each person, you no longer need to worry about it escaping and mutating nearly as much. Gain of function research is done every day all over the planet, it helps us gain data much more quickly and specific to our question.
Don’t listen to Fauci lol he twists and turns and whatever. What we need to worry about is some whack job doing gain of function experiments as this technology keeps getting cheaper and easier to perform. What stinks is when that whack job is a pharmaceutical or government research institution and they see dollar signs instead of chaos. I haven’t seen it personally but yeah I’m sure it’s out there somewhere.
Antibiotics are a thing of the past, now we need new avenues and genetics is the key. Hopefully we don’t squander it or we will jump back 100 years with our approach to medicine.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: BatSars
There are actually multiple programs watching for future pandemics already. The lab in wuhan was actually part of one of these programs, which is why it's laughable to claim that it started the pandemic. It was there because scientists thought that it might be a hot-spot.
originally posted by: TheAMEDDDoc
How exactly is this bad, they’ve been stocking stuff and maintaining genetic blueprints for awhile now.
Antibiotics are a thing of the past, now we need new avenues and genetics is the key. Hopefully we don’t squander it or we will jump back 100 years with our approach to medicine.