On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 9:25 PM <[email protected]> wrote: *> I am doubtful that the democrats who claim they are on the side of > science, are actively funding preparations in advance of any new viruses. > If we go by your buddies at CNN there is no apparent move for specifically > fund research, before any new plague starts. Maybe you can find news of any > new research, I could not.*
You sure didn't look very hard, or maybe you just don't know how to use Google. Your scientific nemesis and Trump's, Dr. Anthony Fauci, thinks for the next pandemic is only a matter of time, so he wants to get to work right now on a program to develop prototype universal vaccines for 20 different families of viruses that could potentially undergo just one small mutation and start the next pandemic. Such a program would discover the precise 3D chemical structure of the viruses so that antibodies could be developed that have the correct shape to fit in and attack the parts of the outer coating of the viruses that are stable and do not mutate so we could have a vaccine that would work against all likely mutated versions of the virus family. Dr. Fauci says research tools have become so powerful in the last few years that such a program is actually feasible, although it would cost "a few billion dollars” a year, take five years for the first crop of results and engage a huge cadre of scientists". Dr. Fauci said he has been promoting the idea “in discussions with the White House and others.” and “If we get the funding, which I believe we will, it likely will start in 2022.” A few billion dollars may seem like a lot of money but it's peanuts compared to the multi trillion dollar economic damage that COVID-19 has already caused, not to mention the 650,000 Americans who have died because of it. So I agree with Dr. Fauci, I think that program will start in 2022, unless of course Trump's Republican minions in the US Senate manage to block it with a filibuster, but if they do those Senator's names will be remembered during the next pandemic. John K Clark ----------------------- >From The New York Times: Fauci Wants to Make Vaccines for the Next Pandemic Before It Hits If funded, a government program costing several billion dollars could develop “prototype” vaccines to protect against 20 families of viruses. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/health/fauci-prototype-vaccines.html?smid=em-share -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1MUyd9LBBNgPnfEbOnB9hYxHowsag2SXhD%3D69NNg_sGQ%40mail.gmail.com.
