{"id":79616,"date":"2021-08-15T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=79616"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:49:22","slug":"israeli-scientists-claim-its-pure-luck-they-were-already-working-on-a-covid-19-vaccine-prior-to-the-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=79616","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Scientists Claim It\u2019s \u2018Pure Luck\u2019 They Were Already Working On A COVID-19 Vaccine Prior To The Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><span class=\"entry-author\">By <span class=\"entry-author-name\">CFT Team<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68405\" src=\"https:\/\/christiansfortruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/migal.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christiansfortruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/migal.jpg 611w, https:\/\/christiansfortruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/migal-300x193.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that vaccines often take 10 to 12 years to develop, Israeli researchers would have us believe that because of\u00a0 some \u2018pure luck\u2019 they could have a new vaccine for the coronavirus ready for the market\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HEALTH-SCIENCE\/Israeli-scientists-In-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">within the next 90 days<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus<\/strong>, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine\u00a0<strong>could be ready within a few weeks<\/strong>\u00a0and available in 90 days, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough,\u201d Akunis said. \u201cI am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat,\u201d Akunis said, referring to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>For the past four years, a team of MIGAL scientists has been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which causes a bronchial disease affecting poultry. The effectiveness of the vaccine has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Veterinary Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur basic concept was to develop the technology and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus,\u201d said Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL\u2019s biotechnology group leader. \u201c<strong>The scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Endocytosis is a cellular process in which substances are brought into a cell by surrounding the material with cell membrane, forming a vesicle containing the ingested material.<\/p>\n<p>In pre-clinical trials, the team demonstrated that the oral vaccination induces high levels of specific anti-IBV antibodies, Katz said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLet\u2019s call it pure luck,\u201d he said. \u201cWe decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But after scientists sequenced the DNA of the novel coronavirus causing the current worldwide outbreak, the MIGAL researchers examined it and found that\u00a0<strong>the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human one, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, which increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time<\/strong>, Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>All we need to do is adjust the system to the new sequence<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are in the middle of this process, and hopefully\u00a0<strong>in a few weeks we will have the vaccine in our hands. Yes, in a few weeks, if it all works<\/strong>, we would have a vaccine to prevent coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MIGAL would be responsible for developing the new vaccine, but it would then have to go through a regulatory process, including clinical trials and large-scale production, Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>Akunis said he has instructed his ministry\u2019s director-general\u00a0<strong>to fast-track all approval processes with the goal of bringing the human vaccine to market as quickly as possible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the urgent global need for a human coronavirus vaccine, we are doing everything we can to accelerate development,\u201d MIGAL CEO David Zigdon said. The vaccine could \u201cachieve safety approval in 90 days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It will be an oral vaccine, making it particularly accessible to the general public, Zigdon said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever you may think of vaccines in general, their development is a long and complicated process, and most mainstream sources state that it takes between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.effectivealtruism.org\/posts\/8qMDseJTE3vCFiYec\/how-long-does-it-take-to-research-and-develop-a-new-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 to 12 years<\/a>\u00a0to have a vaccine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccineseurope.eu\/about-vaccines\/key-facts-on-vaccines\/how-are-vaccines-developed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved for public use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, these Israelis claim they<em>\u00a0just so happened to be working on this strain of coronavirus before the outbreak happened<\/em>, which gave them a \u2018head start\u2019 on the competition.\u00a0 What a coincidence!<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d like you to think that poultry and human coronaviruses are so \u2018similar\u2019 that work on the former can be applied to the latter, which is not necessarily the case because of how specific vaccines have to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Close enough\u2019 doesn\u2019t work in vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>And they make it sound like they were working on some \u2018generic\u2019 template for pulmonary vaccines that could \u2018easily\u2019 be modified to other \u2018similar\u2019 viruses.\u00a0 But the reason flu shots allegedly don\u2019t work from season to season is that each year has a new virus and they have to start all over again, and coronavirus would be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a similar article about this vaccine appeared in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israeli-made-oral-vaccine-for-coronavirus-on-track-but-testing-will-take-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Times Of Israel<\/a>, but that article failed to mention the role that \u2018luck\u2019 played in the rapid development of the vaccine, but it did mention that they\u2019d been working on this generic template for 4 years already.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, this second article makes a rather contradictory claim \u2014 that they found the genetic sequence for it online and applied that to their \u2018template\u2019.\u00a0 Which one is it?\u00a0 Were they already working on COVID-19 or not?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, this second article also makes the astonishing claim that they may have the vaccine ready in only 90 days from now.<\/p>\n<p>In order to rush this vaccine to market, it surely cannot be tested properly in such a short time, and anyone who takes it is literally taking their lives into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the devastation that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swine Flu vaccine caused<\/a>?\u00a0 People got so caught up in the hysteria created by the media that they were willing to take an inadequately manufactured and tested vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Recall how because of the hysteria generated by the media surrounding polio, the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2013\/the-real-history-behind-the-polio-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polio vaccine by Jonas Salk<\/a>\u00a0was rushed to market without proper testing, and it actually caused polio in children and had to be quietly withdrawn while falsely claiming \u2018victory\u2019 over polio.<\/p>\n<p>And the same very well may happen this time: the normal \u2018red tape\u2019 to get this vaccine approved will be waived because of overwhelming public demand and fear, and this new vaccine could end up killing far more people than the cornonavirus ever will.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a 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