Vaccine for China virus has Sept. target date
Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army (above)
According to Ryan McCarthy.
He is Secretary of the Army.
McCarthy’s said so at a March 20th at a press conference at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.
Ft. Detrick is the nation’s top lab for developing and storing select medical biological:
defense agents
toxins
bioweapons
Army Secretary McCarthy said that two dozen companies have been selected to submit bids for the vaccine.
However, three have already been selected by the:
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/orgchart/aspr/barda/index.html
They are:
Moderna in partnership with AstraZeneca, and Merck
Janssen Research & Development (Johnson & Johnson)
Sanofi Pasteur
https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/Pages/BARDA.aspx
Moderna was selected on Jan. 11th to work with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC).
Together they developed a vaccine recipe for the China virus.
China had given them a sample of the virus on Jan. 11th.
It included its genetic code or makeup.
The CDC verified it.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200316005666/en/
On Jan. 6th, the China Communist Party (CCP) admitted the source of the virus was Wuhan, China.
It was verified by the:
World Health Organization (WHO)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Source is Moderna in its press release dated March 16th:
The vaccine went into production on Jan. 13th.
The first batch of the vaccine was made Feb. 7th.
Moderna delivered it Feb. 24th.
It was received by Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Alex Azar, however, said that only clinical trials of the vaccine will be available in September.
The sample size is 45.
Azar heads the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Azar said the vaccine will be ready “in the spring”.
Before being selected to run HHS, Azar was President and top lobbyist at Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company.
He was there from 2007 through January 2017.
Azar is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s boss.
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Updated April 12th, 2020