Big pharma-Bill Gates 2020 deal on vax

11-12-15    Gene drive is a molecular technique that slips a new gene into an organism and guarantees that it will be inherited by offspring and by subsequent generations.  That’s possible because gene drive not only introduces a new gene but destroys competitors of that gene.  Result: even if the genetically engineered organism mates with a partner carrying a different version of the gene, all of their descendants will carry the engineered gene and express the associated trait….

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, part of NIH, provides advice to the federal government on “dual-use research of concern,” or legitimate studies that could be hijacked for bioweapons.  The main focus of the biosecurity board has been on research to make pathogens such as the influenza virus more lethal or contagious.  But “we’re all aware of [gene drive] and I expect it will be next up,” a member of the biosecurity board told STAT.

The UN office that oversees the Biological Weapons Convention has been briefed on gene drive, said Piers Millett, who worked there for over a decade and is now a bioweapons policy specialist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

“One of my duties [at the UN bioweapons office] was horizon scanning,” Millett said.  He urged the office to get up to speed on the potential bioweapons implications of gene drives.

The possibilities for “weaponizing” gene drives range from suppressing pollinators, which could destroy an entire country’s agriculture system, to giving innocuous insects the ability to carry diseases such as dengue, said MIT political scientist Kenneth Oye, who briefed the bioweapons office.https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/12/gene-drive-bioterror-risk/

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2-14-20     “We have an opportunity with the advance of tools like artificial intelligence and gene-based editing technologies to build this new generation of health solutions so that they are available to everyone on the planet.  And I’m very excited about this,”  Bill Gates said in Seattle during a keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gates-thinks-gene-editing-artificial-intelligence-save-world/

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9-30-2020   Bill and Melinda .Gates Foundation has joined forces with 16 pharmaceutical companies to advance manufacturing and equitably distribute coronavirus vaccines….The 16 pharmaceutical companies that signed the agreement include AstraZeneca, Bayer, bioMérieux, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Gilead, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Merck KGaA, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche and Sanofi.  https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-09-30/gates-foundation-pharmaceutical-companies-join-to-advance-coronavirus-vaccines 

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  Pfizer announced its global phase 3 trial on a third dose in mid-July. That trial’s completion date is in 2022.  Phase 3 results generally are required before regulatory approval.

“We are confident in this vaccine and the third dose, but you have to remember the vaccine efficacy study is still going on, so we need all the evidence to back up that,” Jerica Pitts, Pfizer’s director of global media relations, said Monday.  The financial stakes are enormous:  Pfizer announced in July that it expects $33.5 billion in COVID-19 vaccine revenue this year.  https://ctmirror.org/2021/08/13/pfizer-ceo-to-public-just-trust-us-on-the-covid-booster/  (And if anything medically goes wrong with the big pharma vax experiment, they are not legally responsible because they got governments to agree to that.  Rather similar I think to central banks being non accountable to their populations they control financially. -r)

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8-5-21   Pfizer and Moderna set to charge the European Union more than $23 and $25 per dose, respectively.  A recent study by the People’s Vaccine Alliance found Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are charging governments as much as $41 billion above the estimated cost of production.  https://www.democracynow.org/2021/8/5/headlines/amid_soaring_profits_moderna_and_pfizer_to_raise_covid_19_vaccine_prices

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8-10-21  

    Biden has endorsed companies and local governments pressing more people to get vaccinated. The Biden administration is also looking into what authority businesses have to mandate vaccines,  Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Reuters last week.  "I will have their backs and the backs of other private and public sector leaders if they take such steps," the Democratic president said last week.  https://www.dailysabah.com/business/transportation/biden-meets-with-airline-ceos-on-covid-19-vaccine-efforts

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