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Texas Team Applauded for Giving What Big Pharma Refuses: A Patent-Free Vaccine to the World
"We're not trying to make money. We just want to see people get vaccinated."
While Big Pharma corporations took billions of dollars in public funding to help develop vaccines from which they then reaped enormous profits while often charging exorbitant prices, Hotez and Battazzi created Cobervax with $7 million, mostly from private investors. One of these, Austin vodka distiller Tito's, contributed $1 million to the effort.
"If we had even a fraction of the support that Moderna had, who knows, maybe the world would be vaccinated by now," Hotez told the Post. "We wouldn't be having a discussion about Omicron."
Corbevax is a “recombinant protein sub-unit” vaccine, which means it is made up of a specific part of SARS-CoV-2 — the spike protein on the virus’s surface.
The spike protein allows the virus to enter the cells in the body so that it can replicate and cause disease. However, when this protein alone is given to the body, it is not expected to be harmful as the rest of the virus is absent. The body is expected to develop an immune response against the injected spike protein. Therefore, when the real virus attempts to infect the body, it will already have an immune response ready that will make it unlikely for the person to fall severely ill.
Although this technology has been used for decades to make hepatitis B vaccines, Corbevax will be among the first Covid-19 vaccines to use this platform. Novavax has also developed a protein-based vaccine, which is still waiting for emergency use authorisation from various regulators.
Problem is these manufactures/corporations (who are in cojones with the government) want capitalism for themselves but not us. They want us 'equalized' (all equally poor and miserable , aka , you will own nothing and be happy).
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: FyreByrd
This is how medicine should be done - as a calling not a paycheck.
You mean public healthcare and emergency medical services shouldn't be exploited for financial gain because capitalism?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!?
from your OP.
The spike protein allows the virus to enter the cells in the body so that it can replicate and cause disease. However, when this protein alone is given to the body, it is not expected to be harmful as the rest of the virus is absent.