I think we can guess, don’t you? The United States, or Israel — as the Iranians say, Great Satan or Little Satan – are the two likeliest contenders. For now, it seems as though a vaccine developed in Israel will be the first off the starting block, ready for testing on humans within two months.
The story of that vaccine is here.
Israeli researchers said [on April 3] they are days away from finishing production of the active component of a coronavirus vaccine that could be tested on humans starting June 1.
“We are in the final stages and within a few days we will hold the proteins—the active component of the vaccine,” Dr. Chen Katz, group leader of the biotechnology group at the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday [March 31].
The human trials will be conducted on “young, healthy individuals” and will then likely expand to the general population, Katz said, adding that he believes the vaccine will be available first in Israel.
MIGAL said in late February that it would complete production of its vaccine within three weeks and have it on the market in three months, but Katz explained to the Post that the process was delayed because it took longer than anticipated to receive the genetic construct they ordered from China, due to airways being closed and the product needing to be rerouted.
The group, funded partially by a NIS 30 million ($8,225,600) grant from Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology, is working with regulators to ensure that the vaccine is safe to try on human.
Katz said because it will be an oral vaccine, “the quality of this kind of vaccine should be closer to food regulations than pharma regulations or somewhere in between. We hope that we will not need to go through the complete purification process like in the drug industry because that could delay us.”
Another Israeli company, Kamada, a biopharmaceutical company in Rehovot has announced that it has started to work on developing a blood-plasma derived treatment against the coronavirus; it uses the antibodies found in the plasma of those who have survived the coronavirus.
There are dozens of other Israeli researchers, and Israelis outside of Israel, working on vaccines. There is, for example, Dr. Ofer Levy, an Israeli-American who heads the Precision Vaccines Program (PVP) at Boston Children’s Hospital, where researchers are working on developing a vaccine for the coronavirus. Dr. Levy says that among the worldwide vaccine efforts, his group is uniquely focused on a solution for the elderly, a population Levy defines as age 65 or older.
“Vaccines are not one size fits all,” Levy told The Times of Israel via a conference call on Monday [March 31].“Immune response varies with age.” He said that the elderly are “at greatest risk of severe infection,” and thus he is concentrating on this age group.
A physician and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Levy and his fellow researchers have been working on a vaccine since mid-January. He estimated that over 40 separate groups are working on vaccines, but as of press time, none are approved.
As we have all come to expect, when it comes to medical and technological advances, Israel punches far above its weight. None of us would be surprised were a vaccine to be developed first in Israel. It could be by the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute; the vaccine it has developed is said to be ready for human trials by June. We would take in stride the news that the antibody-based vaccine of the Israeli company Kamada would be ready for human trials by June, or that the vaccine being developed by PVP (Precision Vaccines Program) that Dr. Ofer Levy directs at the Boston Children’s Hospital might start trials in July. And we expect something to come from the half-dozen other Israeli research groups. We would be surprised not if one or more succeeds, but if they all were to fail.
There are, of course, many other vaccines in the works outside Israel. American researchers include Dr. Stephane Bancel and his team at Moderna (among them at least one Israeli-born scientist). Others who come swimmingly to mind as developers of a coronavirus vaccine include: Dr. Chen Wei and his fellow researchers in Wuhan itself; Russian scientists at the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Centre in the city of Novosibirsk; investigators. at Imperial College, London. Again, no surprises. We have only rounded up the usual suspects: America, Israel, China, Russia, the U.K.
But among the 40 or so research groups now working in a half-dozen countries on a coronavirus vaccine, none were to be found in any of the 57 Muslim countries that are members of the O.I.C. (Organization of the Islamic Conference). You are not surprised. But why should that be? Could it be that Islam discourages free and skeptical inquiry? The fear among Muslim clerics has always been that if ordinary Muslims began to question authority in one area, they might end up by questioning aspects of Islam itself, and that would never do. Islam means “submission,” and the habit of mental submission to that authority – that is, to the Qur’an itself, and to the Hadith – has always been encouraged in Islam. Rote memorization confers prestige; the Believer who memorizes the entire Qur’an is deeply respected as a “hafiz,” as if that empty feat signified learning. Would any of us in the Western world celebrate as a gifted mathematician someone who had memorized pi to the 200th decimal point? Of course not. Memorization is favored in Islam because it reinforces authority; we learn by heart what it is the Qur’an tells us; we do not question it. If you need to find out what is halal or haram, ask a Muslim cleric, in person or at the many such sites on-line), who will supply you with a Qur’anic verse, or an “authoritative” Hadith (from Bukhari or Muslim), to answer your question. That “free and skeptical inquiry” that Islam discourages is the very thing that furthers the enterprise of science. Some Muslims, especially those living and working in the West, manage to acquire the habits of mind of their Western teachers and colleagues, and are able to contribute to scientific advances. Alas, how few they are in number.
Some are enthralled with Muhammad, Messenger of God. Others are more interested in Messenger RNA. It is the latter who will discover the vaccine for the coronavirus.
mortimer says
Testing of new medications is often done on paid, volunteer subjects with a separate, comparative cohort of ‘blind’ subjects who are given a placebo. It will take many months and the virus will have passed over.
There will be a different virus ‘next time’. It appears that someone working in two Wuhan laboratories was accidentally infected and spread the virus in the city of Wuhan. The Chinese commissars tried to cover it up, just like the commissars tried to cover up Chernobyl.
The health effects of covid-19 are much worse than Chernobyl, but both of these disasters are a result of the communist hierarchical system which lacks a mechanism for correction or whistle-blowing when a big error is committed.
Rarely says
Coverups are certainly not the exclusive property of communist governments although coverups, down playing issues and misinformation are certainly easier to perform in totalitarian regimes than in democratic ones. Some western democracies were slow off the gun with Covid-19 as well.
There is plenty to be upset with China about COVID-19 but I think it has much more to do with it being a closed totalitarian state than with its communist ideology.
CogitoErgoSum says
What’s your favorite example of a communist state that is not closed or totalitarian?
Rarely says
All communist states are totalitarian.
Some totalitarian states are not communist.
Satisfied?
CogitoErgoSum says
So, if totalitarian states always cover things up and communist states are totalitarian states then would it not follow that communist states always cover things up? How would saying it has more to do with totalitarianism in any way make communist ideology less culpable?
Jramsix says
There is no doubt to me that even our own government is involved in the coverup of COVID 19 being a man-made virus. The evidence is overwhelming that the virus is not naturally occurring, It’s a “Chimera” of three viruses that has a “Gain in Function” that by just demonstrating that makes it an almost certainty it was manufactured in a lab. The researchers left a trail of scientific papers outlining exactly what they were doing in the lab before they made COVID 19. The Statistical odds that this virus “self-assembled” with the addition of these 81 nucleic acids in just the right locations in just the right sequences is greater then 1 x 10 to the minus 51st power (greater if you calculate in the specific locations in the genome). The Statistical odds of two people have the same fingerprint is estimated at 1 out of 64 Billion (6.4 x 10 to the 10th power). That is just a fraction of the evidence.
Now imagine that our government and others went after damages from the Chinese for accidentally releasing this virus. Imagine the Trillions of $$$ in damages as well as the hatred for the wrongful deaths. The economic sanctions to follow. The possibility of war. The exposure of our own leaks from our own bioweapon labs. The fall of the CCP will not happen easily.
Knowing how silly our politicians can be, you can easily understand why they would want to protect the “status quo”.
David says
Please provide link to these documents..
gravenimage says
This is ludicrous. We have had several Coronavirus outbreaks over the past yeas, including SARS and MERS. The idea that that COVID-19 was ginned up in a lab is ridiculous–as is the idea that we then were able to somehow release this disease in the middle of Communist China.
Does this poster think that 9/11 was an “inside job”, as well?
Geof Barrington says
Graven ..do you not believe 911 was an inside job ? If you do think it was a bunch of arabs with box cutters then your probably impaired .
As for there being several coron viruses in the last years 10 % of colds are coronavirus..but as has been pointed out this CV has other relatives as well including a flu and SARS plus as Jramsix mentions ..the gain function. Guaranteed a lab manufactured thing along with SARS and MERS .
Dave says
Sorry mate.
Vaccines are the only medicine that are not tested with a double blind, inert placebo control group.
The manufactures are also immune from prosecution.
Vaccines are never a treatment! At best they are a temporary preventative measure, if given well in advance of infection to healthy people.
Hollywood/comic book science needs to be corrected!
Jramsix says
Dave, you are spot on.
Very few people know that vaccines are not tested in randomized placebo controlled trials. Yes, these randomized placebo controlled trials are the same type of trials that they are demanding before we can use Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin for the treatment of COVID 19 despite some very good evidence that the drug combination is effective. They would rather have people die from COVID 19 by denying the right to take these safe medicines.
Somewhere in there is a certain amount of irony, ignorance, and plain stupidity.
gravenimage says
Dave, do you believe that the polio virus is just a “temporary preventative measure”? If so can you explain why polio is no longer a scourge as it was in our parent’s and grandparent’s day?
mortimer says
Many medical advances were made in battle-field hospitals where the desperate circumstances led to innovations. We are in a desperate circumstance now and medical rules should be loosened a bit to get results that will save millions of lives and avoid the collapse of world economies.
Westman says
In total world population the ratio of Muslims to Jews is 150:1, which leaves only two conclusions for the poor scientific performance of today’s Muslims: 1.) Jews are smarter, or, 2.) Islam has retarded the scientific progress of Muslims. Some may see a 3rd conclusion.
The Quranic description of Islam’s followers would deny both yet the facts are plain for all to see. Allah would have known (as a god) the true potential of the Jews; leaving the conclusion that Muhammad inserted his own biases into the Quran and was likely its real author.
It’s obvious that much of Muslim hatred toward Israel is that its existence and scientific success makes liars out of Muhammad and Allah who declared Muslims to be the supreme achievers. Like Mao, Islam wants to hammer down the nail that sticks up so blatantly. That the free world of unbelievers (with far superior military abilities) will not allow it is a deep humiliation to Islam; and due to the retarding effect of Islam, it won’t be the last humiliation.
If Israel offers a cure for Covid-19 to Islam, and it refuses, it will be just another failure of Islam.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“In total world population the ratio of Muslims to Jews is 150:1, which leaves only two conclusions for the poor scientific performance of today’s Muslims: 1.) Jews are smarter, or, 2.) Islam has retarded the scientific progress of Muslims.”
As I’m sure you know, both are correct.
Jews in Israel have MUCH higher IQs than muslims in islamic countries.
In particular, Ashkenazi Jews have an average intelligence quotient (IQ) in the range of 107 to 115 – and some are much higher.
muslims in muslim majority countries are roughly 30 points lower, sometimes more depending upon the country.
Also…
islam is regressive regarding scientific progress.
And still somehow muslims feel that they are the “best of people.”
DHazard says
Not to mention the pre-Islamic tradition of first cousin marriage that’s still going strong in many Muslim communities, and can stretch back for several generations. I think a lot of Muslims just associate science with Jews, the “West”, kaffirs, and atheism. They are programmed to let it just fly over their heads which completely negates any possible reformation much less worthwhile discussion.
gravenimage says
And the Muslim world does much to retard the efforts–sometimes violently–of those who might be intelligent enough to make real contributions.
Boromir's Horn says
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, supported by the Bill Gates Foundation has already started clinical trials on humans.
Meanwhile, the CDC, Tony Fauci, the Democratic Part and all the talking heads of the msm continue to maintain hydroxychloroquine is an ineffective and dangerous form of treatment for this virus. Why? Because President Trump had the audacity to say this drug offers us hope. Problem is, it’s actually showing that it can decrease the symptoms enough that it reduces the chance of death. That has been proven. It just hasn’t been proven in a 6 month trial like the scientists want. But it does work.
The projection of death, between 100,000 to 200,000 in this country alone, was before this treatment was used. The new projections will be much, much lower, but by that time, the media will be focused on the impeachment of Trump for not doing enough.
Kilfincelt says
Sadly, you are correct. I’m so sick of the Demonrats and their impeachment hoax that I think we need to start an online petition demanding that the DNC pay the cost of all these fake hearings. Taxpayers should not have to bear the burden pushed by the Dems nonsense and hysterics.
Boromir's Horn says
Kilfincelt says…….DNC pay the cost
Hopefully, this November they will
Ray Jarman says
I bet there are few here at JW that are surprised about Israel being the first to out of the gate with a vaccine.
Terry Gain says
I think it was about two months ago that I posted a comment on this site that expected the Israelis to be the first people to develop a vaccine and I hoped that they would then offer it to the so-called Palestinians.
ELI says
I would also like to thank the Mossad for the theft of life saving equipment from other countries.
https://www.haaretz.com/hblocked?returnTo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fisrael-news%2F.premium-ventilators-by-cloak-and-dagger-1.8732412
No one here gives a shit but imagine if a Muslim country had done it? my God, the outrage and Quran quoting on here would be off the scales. How many articles on the topic ? 4? 5?
CogitoErgoSum says
While you are at it why don’t you also thank those Muslims who are killing Christians and Jews around the world every day? That should be freeing up a few extra ventilators. Don’t forget to give a special thanks to Allah for that too. Also while you are at it, why don’t you ask Allah to give you some ventilators?
ELI says
Will do but then again coronavirus is being spread by Muslims, according to a twitter post. In the meantime let’s look for news of Muslim countries doing something similar to what the Mossad did. That way we can selectively get angry at them while systematically giving everyone else a pass no matter what their behavior.
CogitoErgoSum says
Would something like taking churches away from Christians count? How many ventilators do you think the Hagia Sofia would be worth?
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum wrote:
While you are at it why don’t you also thank those Muslims who are killing Christians and Jews around the world every day? That should be freeing up a few extra ventilators. Don’t forget to give a special thanks to Allah for that too. Also while you are at it, why don’t you ask Allah to give you some ventilators?
ELI wrote:
Will do…
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Are we supposed to consider this support for Jihad murder from ELI to be a joke? I doubt it–he has consistently refused to say *anything* critical of Jihad terror here, despite being urged to do so many times.
Westman says
You fell for click-bait, Eli. Mossad was assigned by the Israeli government to procure masks and ventilators. A number of times they arrived for a promised sale and another country’s agency had already bought them. They didn’t steal anything, all procurements were paid for.
Israelis should be proud their government actually cares about preserving the citizen’s lives unlike some other governments in the region who only begin to think about it when they discover Allah is on a long vacation. Inshullah, eh?
gravenimage says
Thank you, Westman.
The Remorseless Headsman says
If Israel is the 1st to develop a vaccine, they need to emphasize that menstrual blood from Israeli women is a key ingredient.
Terry Gain says
I’m jealous. Today I posted a comment on Legal Insurrection that the most serious disease in Canada is Trump Derangement and it is not covered by our government run health plans.
As deranged as my fellow Canadians may be about President Trump I have yet to hear anyone up here suggest that he has a financial interest in the drug companies producing hydroxychloroquine and azizthromycin.
Joe and Mika take a bow. You’re at the bottom of the class.
jca reid says
One this is certain, this vaccine, or vaccines won’t come from the Islamic world! Only Nobel Laureate Scientists they’ve provided are about…… 2 in 100+ years. Jews 150. The Muslim guys were at AMERICAN Universities & probably as a part of a team. Put your money on a Free World country.
ELI says
“Would something like taking churches away from Christians count? How many ventilators do you think the Hagia Sofia would be worth?”
Lots of ventilators, on the other hand the thousands of Mosques destroyed in Xinjiang since 2017 are hardly worth anything since nobody gives a shit. Unfortunately and unlike the Hagia Sofia nothing remains of them.
You know what’s worth a lot of ventilators? all those ventilators stolen by the Mossad. Why don’t we apologize to Israel and blame Muslims for that? better yet, let’s keep looking away anytime to “good guys” t]do horrible things and blame Muslims for everything. Sound good?
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe we can compromise and say that stealing a church and cutting off a Christian’s head is just as bad as taking a guy’s ventilator from him. Maybe it’s not as bad because a guy without a head doesn’t need a ventilator …. or a church. How’s that sound to you?
ELI says
I think we’re almost there. I would say that cutting off a guy’s head is worse than taking his ventilator. That way we don’t have to condemn the Mossad, we keep the focus on Muslims and we look for twitter posts that suggest a worldwide Muslim plot to spread the coronavirus.
One last question, who is going to apologize to Mossad for the previous anti-semitic posts? after all they never do anything bad and it’s probably the Muslims’ fault anyways.
CogitoErgoSum says
You mean your anti-semitic posts? I guess you should do the apologizing then. I’m still trying to figure out why it would be bad for China to close or demolish mosques when it’s standard operating procedure for Muslims to do the same to churches, synagogues and temples. Maybe it’s to keep the Muslims from spreading the corona virus among themselves so they won’t need ventilators? I don’t know. The Chinese (and especially the communist Chinese) are inscrutable.
gravenimage says
How is purchasing goods “theft”?
Carpediadem says
When it’s Jews purchasing them of course!
gravenimage says
Yep…
roberta says
If a Jew or other kaffir comes up with the vaccine first……..drum roll……….
Its the muslims proof that the virus was made in a Jew or kaffir lab. Any fool can clearly see that, and many (with diapers on their heads) will.
gravenimage says
I would not be surprised.
Kepha says
A big part of me is betting that our own immune systems will probably outrace the researchers in finding a way to deal with this new virus.
It’s OT, even if I’m still engaging in bitter, scornful laughter at the Islamic “teachers” who think the US and or Israel launched COVID-19. I’m of the mind that this is either an accidental or deliberate leak from a Chinese lab. The attempts to quash physicians and itizen journalists who gave an early warning smacks of this, as does Beijing’s attempts to pin this on the US Army (as if we’re occupying Wuhan).
I’m also not blaming “wet markets” or how southern China eats “anything that turns its back on Heaven”. When I lived in the Far East (Taiwan, Thailand, Mainland China), I strolled through many a market where people shopped for live poultry and quadrupeds and had them slaughtered on spot. I’ve eaten a lot of things many in the West would consider “weird”. In the USA, I’ve been exposed to rural people in flyover country who ate squirrel, opossum, and raccoon, as well as Orthodox Jews who kept glatt kosher. These people didn’t become vectors for new epidemics; I doubt the average people of China were, either.
Frankly, I think Xi Jinping and cohort are gloating over the rest of the world facing economic trouble. This is all the more a reminder that when it comes to fighting radical Islam, Beijing is no ally.
Terry Gain says
I am a retired lawyer with a great imagination but I can’t conceive of a proper waiver which anyone would sign before participating in Dr. Fauci’s proposed clinical trials as to the effectiveness of HCQ, used in In combination with Z-Pak, in the treatment of COVID-19.
Who would sign a waiver which advises that there is strong anecdotal evidence that these drugs have been successful in the treatment of COVID-19 and that they have a long history of minimal side effects and further that most those taking the placebo would experience a worsening of their conditions and some would die?
In my opinion, conducting clinical trials of the effectiveness of these drugs with participants already suffering from COVID-19 is unethical. Clinical trials should be restricted to the issue of whether these drugs are an effective prophylaxiis.
I also believe that if Obama had proposed that HCQ in combination with Z-Pak be used in the treatment of Covid-19, he would already have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
ntesdorf says
One thing that we do know for sure and that is that a vaccine for Covid-19 will not be coming out of any of the Mediaeval Islamic States around the World. I doubt that anywhere there is anyone even testing Camel urine to see if that works. Possibly someone is testing dunked fly wings.
tgusa says
While I hope that a vaccine is developed if you examine contemporary anti viral history in the US, if you watch the actions/reactions and listen to the chattering leftists in the media, the administrative state and many elected representatives you might as well begin prepping for the next virus that we wont be prepared for that will surely come along sooner rather than later.
There is not a lot of difference between the across the board leadership in the US and the moron that heads the WHO. For that reason I don’t believe America will come up with some sort of new cure for this latest virus and we will be unprepared when the next one rolls in. We have elevated incompetents based on identity politics and now the bill is coming due. For many, the price of incompetence will be death.
gravenimage says
Where Will the First Coronavirus Vaccine Come From?
I think we can guess, don’t you? The United States, or Israel — as the Iranians say, Great Satan or Little Satan – are the two likeliest contenders. For now, it seems as though a vaccine developed in Israel will be the first off the starting block, ready for testing on humans within two months…
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Exactly–almost certainly one of these two places, and on the slight off chance that it is not one of them then somewhere else in the free West–Europe or Australia or Canada.
Certainly not Dar-al-Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Vaccinating the whole gullible world was the whole point of releasing the virus.
That’s why genocidal eugenicist Bill Gates patented it in 2015.
FYI says
You might be interested in looking up ID2020: an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccines as a platform for digital identity.
“Digital Identity”:vaccines with..microchips.
That Wuhan lab?It has a BSL-4 lab{Biosafety level 4 clearance} that means it works with the world’s most deadly pathogens including coronovirus and.. has a history of “accidental” releases of pathogens.WHO certainly knows about it.
According to a recent Lancet study:patient zero was nowhere near any seafood market.one virologist said “That virus went into the seafood market before it came out of that market”
Independent scientists are the ones to ask as we can hardly trust the WHO or big corporation laboratories.
See how new laws are coming in to curtail movement…and if you don’t comply you can be fined or arrested{or forced to wear a tag}
gravenimage says
Ah…right. It’s all the fault of the ‘filthy Infidels’…
OLD GUY says
My guess is that the sneaky Chinese who brought us C-19 also have the antidote for it. How can it be that China where this virus came from has not had major breakouts throughout the country? Could this be a bio-weapon aimed at destroying the worlds economy so that China can complete their goal of world economic dominance?
Patriotliz says
I too wonder how many, if any, of the CCP and their military have been infected with THEIR virus.
Just asking since Wuhan, the site of a BSL4 bioweapon lab…I mean “biosafety” lab, which is near that “wet” market were this virus supposedly appeared, perhaps, accidentally on purpose. But I don’t think nearby Beijing was quite devastated as much as the Chinese virus devastated many other countries on other continents…I guess they were just lucky, huh?
Call me crazy…but I think China is way ahead of everybody else and already has a vaccine and is using it and probably has a stock pile of immune sera to combat their virus for their chosen ones–CCP, Military and those with good connections. After all, they do have a large supply of imprisoned “vounteers” to test their virus and their vaccine and have probably been working on it for years in their lab in Wuhan. Losing a few thousand (few million?) of their fellow Chinese citizens in the process is no big deal to the CCP…it if could paralyze the U.S. economy literally overnight with a little help from their friends at W.H.O. and deep state commies in CDC and NIH.