Pre-Pandemic Timeline
2016 – 2018

Chronological order of significant global, Australian and SA data points leading up to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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2017
October 23 2017

SPARS Coronavirus Scenario

On October 23, 2017 The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security released the SPARS Scenario, a pandemic simulation event, portraying a futureistic scenario for public health risk communicators, where a new virus infects mankind in 2025 and continues until 2028. The self-guided tabletop training experience challenged public health communicators and risk communication researchers to consider the complex messaging dilemmas of a future outbreak, which required the development of a new vaccine. [1, 2] The fictitious outbreak of the novel SPARS coronavirus is first identified in a major US city in 2025, over 3 years it spreads world wide and the case fatality rates vary depending on the capabilities of local health systems.
November 15 2017

Moderna’s first in-human “cancer vaccine” dosed

On November 15, 2017 Moderna in collaboration with Merck (product and $200M funding) announced their first-in-human dosing of their KEYNOTE-603 Phase 1 clinical trial using mRNA-4157, and mRNA gene therapy product which they refered to as a “personaised cancer vaccine“. [1, 2]

November 27 2017

Children are labelled “super spreaders”- get the flu-jab to protect grandma!

In a November 27, 2017 article, the UK calls for parent to get their ‘super spreader’ children in daycare, vaccinated with a free flu jab so that they “protect” their grandparents from the risk of the flu!

The vaccines are simply “assumed” to be safe and effective, yet the CDC state that influenza vaccines are only 40-60% effective, but in some years is as low as 10%!  So what is the real benefit, and at what risk both short and long-term?

It would seem most people don’t realise that influenza & pneumonia statistics are lumped together and advertised as deaths due to flu – its a “death certificate” conundrum.  Flu estimates are based on ever changing models such as Canada’s estimate flu deaths going from 500/yr to 8000/yr.   Every year there are many influenza-like-illness (ILI) which is generally called the flu, but is this yearly flu jabbing actually making things worse? [@45:50] [1]

Doctors are educated by marketers to increase flu-shot demand.  So is this really about health, protection or big-pharma money!

November 30 2017

Chinese chimeric research funded by NIH

Published November 30, 2017, research in at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that was funded by US NIH showed man-made (chimeric) viruses could replicate in human cells.

Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins claimed is not Gain of Function research, but Dr Fauci, in his own words, says it is! [1, 2, 3]

December 14 2017

Fauci supported review paper sets the stage for pandemic “prototype vaccines”

In a private meeting in February 2017, Dr Barney Graham pitched his “brainchildPrototype Vaccine Project to the NIAID executives which included Dr. Fauci who said the idea struck him and others in the executive committee “as something that is really doable.”

Following that meeting, on December 14, 2017, Dr Graham published a review paper outlining the proposal in Nature Immunology titled “Emerging viral diseases from a vaccinology perspective: preparing for the next pandemic“, in which Fauci provided “editorial comments” and the NIAID supported.  This paper sets the stage for moving forward with “prototype vaccines” for all pathogens with pandemic potential!

The paper stated “developing rational candidate vaccines directed against at least one prototype virus within each major phenotypic category within each family of viruses is advisable”

The paper concluded that “[p]reparation for emerging viral disease will be an inherent component of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG)”

“But without the urgency of a threatening pandemic, his [Dr Graham‘s] idea remained just that.” stated the New York Times on July 25, 2021, as Fauci seeks funding the “brainchild” project!

December 19 2017

HHS lifts ban on Gain-of-Function research – P3CO Framework established

On January 9, 2017 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released their “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Noting “[a]doption of these recommendations will satisfy the requirements for lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or transmissibility to produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP).”

By the end of that year, on December 19, 2017, Francis Collins, Director of US National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it was lifting the October 16, 2014 funding moratorium [9, 10] on Gain-of-Function (GoF) research. [6]  “Dual Use” research continued because HHS adopted the pre-funding review mechanism called the Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) Framework which would be used to make funding decisions for GoF-type research. [1, 20]

How this came about:

Starting late 2014,  the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) who served as the “official federal advisory body on GoF research issues and is responsible for developing recommendations for the appropriate level of Federal oversight of GoF research”. Which was infomed by Gryphon Scientific, who were “contracted by the NIH Office of Science Policy [OSTP] to conduct risk and benefit assessments (RBA) of GoF research involving the pathogens subject to the funding pause.”  NSABB worked in conjunction with the National Academies of Sciences. [18]

Following less than 3 years (2014-2016) of NSABB symposiums, together with Gryphon Scientific reports, two report were published:

  • May 2015 the NSABB recommended Framework for Conducting Risk and Benefit Assessments of Gain-of-Function Research
  • May 2016 the NSABB  final report titled Recommendations for the evaluation and oversight of proposed Gain-of-Function research  which Section 6 included “a more rigorous description of GOF research of concern (GOFROC).” [2, 14]

On January 9, 2017, just before the Inauguration of Donald Trump as President, the Obama White House OSTP released their recommended policy guidance for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a GoF research assessment framework based on the NSABB recommendations. [3, 4]

By December 2017 the HHS adopted the pre-funding guidance mechanism called the Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).  Under the HHS P3CO Framework, the HHS P3CO Review Group [11] make funding decisions for enhanced PPP/GoF research projects. [5, 6]  The review group approved example A & B. [12]

By February 2022 at a NSABB meeting, the NIH show slides with revised definitions of GoF research; either “Dual Use Research Of Concern (DURC)” or emerging pandemic potential pathogens “ePPP‘s”. [7, 8]

Working in conjuction with NSABB, the The National Academies of Sciences held two Gain of Function Symposiums (Dec. 15-16, 2014 [17] & Mar. 10-22, 2016). Participating in these symposiums were:

December 20 2017

TGA oficially outsouces assessments of medicince it regulates in Australia

On December 20, 2017 the Australian TGA announced that it would make use of assessments from comparable overseas regulators (CORs) and international assessment bodies, where possible, in the regulation of medicines, to reduce the duplication of effort where an assessment has already been conducted outside Australia.

In response to the Medicines and Medical Devices Review (MMDR), which led to the March 20,2018, Provisional Registration reglatory pathway, the TGA also reformed the way it collaborated with comparable overseas regulators, another way of seemingly speeding up drug approvals.

CORs are deemed to be Canada, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and European Union- in time most of these will come together to form the ACCESS consortium [5] , and form bodies like the Access COVID-19 Vaccine Working Group, working with WHO and the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) to achieve global regulatory alignment. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

“In December 2020, the Access Consortium released information regarding the regulatory evidence requirements for COVID-19 vaccine authorisations and considerations for post-market pharmacovigilance which built on the Consortium’s pledge to work together to counter the COVID-19 global pandemic.”

Then as early as March 2021, only 2 months after the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, the Access Consortium released “guidance clarifying the information required by medicine regulators to approve any modifications to authorised COVID-19 vaccines should virus mutations make them less effective at preventing the disease.” [1]

2018
January 1 2018

Wellcome Trust begin surveillance on “public attitutes to science and health” – including vaccines

In 2018 the Wellcome Trust headed by Jeremy Farrar, released their first Wellcome Global Monitor study of “public attitudes to science and health on a global scale”. Through “conducting nationally representative surveys of people aged 15 years or older in over 140 countries.” [1]

Chapter 5 of the 2018  report covered public perceptions, awareness and attitudes to vaccines, referencing the vaccine confidence index.

Imporving global pandemic preparedness is on their 2025 agenda. [2]

January 2 2018

TGA announced sharing work load with other regulators assessing Dossier submissions

On January 2, 2018 the TGA announced their criteria for working on opportunities for enhanced international collaboration in the regulation of prescription medicines with their Comparable Overseas Regulators (CORs) on prescription medicines criteria for jointly assessing dossier submissions.  [1, 2]

  • “In response to the Medicines and Medical Devices Review (MMDR) we are reforming the way we collaborate with comparable overseas regulators” – and “implementing a formal process for work-sharing with CORs on prescription medicines applications.”
  • Under this process, multiple regulators would be able to work simultaneously on different parts of a dossier submitted for evaluation in each jurisdiction. A joint evaluation report would then be provided to each agency to allow independent decision-making.”
  • They start out by sharing the work load on reassessing generic medicines [3]

Regulators around the world in 2020 did not review COVID-19 vaccine information separately.  They shared the workload!

January 4 2018

DARPA launches PREEMPT program

On January 4, 2018 DARPA announces their new 3.5-year “program called Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats, or PREEMPT, seeks to support military readiness by going after new viral infectious diseases at the source, animal reservoirs—the species in which a pathogen lives, multiplies, and potentially evolves into a strain that can threaten humans.”

In February 2019 DARPA announced their partnership with 5 companies who are developing new generation countermeasure platforms, includes Autonomous Therapeutics who has as self-spreading vaccine conceived in 2014 and accelerating in 2024. [1, 2]

Promoted as a “New Layer of Medical Preparedness to Combat Emerging Infectious Disease” where industry research “supporting PREEMPT program will model viral evolution in animal populations, quantify the probability of human pathogen emergence, and pursue proof-of-concept interventions to prevent viral spread to humans”.

January 19 2018

Concerns raised about safety protocols at the China, Wuhan biosecurity lab

In a cable dated January 19, 2018, SU delegates paid multiple visits to China’s Wuhan level 4 biosecurity lab and reported to Washington that a lack of safety protocols could spark a SARS-like outbreak. [1]

As lab security is a now known issue, a credible investigation into the 2020 origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is needed.

February 1 2018

ACIP vaccine approval process

Cameras capture key moments in 2018 CDC Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) meeting as they suprisingly vote to approve a new vaccine with a brand new adjuvant that has known potential issues.

Reminder, Australian doctors refers to CDC for guidance on vaccine administration, and the TGA collaborate with international regulators.

February 6 2018

The term “Disease X” is born – the next unknown pandemic

At a annual WHO R&D Blueprint meeting held February 6-7, 2018, “a group of experts” which Peter Daszak belongs to coined the term “Disease X”. They were “referring to the next pandemic, which would be caused by an unknown, novel pathogen that hadn’t yet entered the human population.” and of which there was an “absence of efficacious drugs and/or vaccines”. [1]

The objective of the blueprint and meeting was “to reduce the time between declaration of a public health emergency and the availability of effective diagnostic tests, vaccines, antivirals and other treatments that can save lives and avert a public health crisis”

Disease X would likely:

  • Result from a virus originating in animals and would emerge somewhere on the planet where economic development drives people and wildlife together.
  • Be confused with other diseases early in the outbreak and would spread quickly and silently; exploiting networks of human travel and trade, it would reach multiple countries and thwart containment.
  • Have a mortality rate higher than a seasonal flu but would spread as easily as the flu.
  • It would shake financial markets even before it achieved pandemic status.

On October 15, 2019, “CEPI launches new call for innovative platform technologies to rapidly respond to Disease X”, their first call for fast new vaccine platforms went out in 2017.

At Davos 2024 the WEF “preparing for Disease X” with “disinformation” threatens! [2, 3].

February 18 2018

NIAID release their Strategic Plan for a Universal Flu Vaccine

On February 28, 2018, the NIAID led by Dr Fauci,  published their strategic plan for developing a universal influenza vaccine, which was the result of a June 2017 NIAID workshop. [1, 2]

The following by year in 2019 the NIAID created the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVICs), out of needs identified in the NIAID Universal Influenza Vaccine Strategic Plan.

March 6 2018

TGA legislations change sets up for Vaccine advertising

On March 6, 2018, clause 42DK(3) was added to the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 which sets the stage for future product advertising (vaccines) by an Australian state, when it is in the interest of “public health”. [1, 2]

In Australia advertising of pharmaceuticals on television has been prohibited, but this new clause sets the stage for the TGA to allow Health Departments to advertise vaccines on behalf of manufacturers direct to the public.

March 11 2018

Global Disinformation Index non-profit is established to rate “risk” of media sites

The self appointed, Global Disinformation Index (GDI) non-profit organisation launched its website around March 11, 2018, but registerd  but incorprated the UK-based entity on April 7, 2018. It established 2 affiliates in the use in Nov. 2018 and Sept. 2020 respectively.  Their stated mission is to “Restore trust in the media by providing real-time automated risk ratings of the world’s media sites through a Global Disinformation Index.” [1, 2]

Their “Prototype Funding” round closing April 30, 2018, and by 2019 they were supported by: Knight Foundation, USAID, Luminate, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Article 19 [3, 4, 5, 6] Luminate was established in 2018 by philanthropists Pierre and Pam Omidyar, and curiously in 2017 they partnered with Knight Foundation to “research artificial intelligence for the public interest”.

The archives lists the co-founders as:

  • Alexandra Mousavizadeh – CEO of Decima Global [an obsucure company, that doesn’ really exist, and is not mentioned in her LinkedIn]
  • Clare Melford of 9 Degrees and former managing director of MTV Network
  • Miguel Martinez – Chief Data Scientist, Signal – REF
  • Dr. Daniel Rogers of Terbium Labs & Veracity.ai (He appears to be added as co-founder in June 2018)

In October 2018, Mousavizadeh was a speaker at the second United Nations World Data Forum in Dubai.

On April 13, 2021 The GDI submitted a report to the United Nations 47th session of the Human Rights Council, who called  for “Reports on Disinformation” – where they state the “GDI’s goal is to catalyse industry to reduce disinformation and its harms by going after the financial incentives to create disinformation….primarily by primarily by seeking to defund disinformation – breaking the incentive to
create it for the purpose of garnering advertising revenues…” [Disinformation Resolution passed at the 66th UN GA January 2022]

UNESCO state “GDI provides disinformation risk ratings for news sites in media markets around the globe.” Who’s risk ratings are neutral, independent and transparent”, but conservative media appear to be their target and they maybe violating the law. [7]

March 20 2018

Time-Limited Provisional Registration added to TGA legislation

On March 29, 2018 the Australian government added a Provisional Registration (PR) amendment  to the Therapeutic Goods Act (1989), of which the TGA Secretary now has overriding power to send a product application through the registration process with only preliminary clinical data. [3, 15]

On March 20, 2018 the TGA announce “As part of the Government’s response to the Review of Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation (MMDR review), we are implementing a pathway for the provisional registration of prescription medicines. Approval through the provisional pathway will be on the basis of preliminary clinical data where there is the potential for a substantial benefit to Australian patients. The provisional approval pathway allows sponsors to apply for time-limited provisional registration on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG).”

This decision was publicised on June 26, 2017 as a Priority review pathway for the registration of novel prescription medicines for Australian patients….[and] will involve faster assessment of vital and life-saving prescription medicines“.  With specific eligibility criteria, of serious or life-threatening condition, where no existing alternative product is available.

The intent of this new registration category was explained in parliament in September 14, 2017 by the Health Minister, Mr Greg Hunt, as being intended as an avenue to provide “medicine” to those people with “significant unmet clinical needs for serious conditions. [8, 9]

The process started October 24, 2014 with the announcement of the MMDR panel of 3 experts to review and report  on the regulatory framework of therapeutic goods. [4, 5, 6, 7]  The panel recommended a provisional pathway. [13, 14]

The government responded in 2016, noting the “international trends towards allowing earlier access to medicines” especially looking to fast-track “novel and lifesaving medicines”, with a seeming emphasis on cancer drugs. [10]

  • Provisional registrations are of a limited duration (max 2 years) and require the sponsor to supply ongoing clinical data to support their product.
  • All PR products are part of the Black Triangle Scheme where healthcare professionals or consumers should report to the TGA all and any “any unfavourable and unintended sign, symptom or disease” following the use of the product “to help us build up the full picture of a medicine’s safety profile.”  It’s not the doctor’s job to determine if a unintended consequence is related or not to the medicine.
  • “For provisionally-registered medicines, the black triangle symbol will appear for a period of not less than five years.””
  • Such “registrations” are added to the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG), but they are not classed as fully registered, they are still under assessment and may never receive full registration status.

Between 1 April 2018 until 22 June 2021 there has been [12] Provisional Registrations of which 2 are COVID-19 vaccines [1, 2] and 1 is remdesivir.

April 4 2018

100 years since 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic – GOF research promoted

In a symposium marking 100 years since 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic, Professor Ralph Baric from UNC-Chapel Hill, speaks to the necessity of Gain of Function (GOF) research, and the opportunities to available from pandemics.

Ralph Baric is a “longtime collaborator” with Shi Zheng-Li (the “Bat Lady”) of the bat coronavirus research lab in Wuhan.

April 10 2018

Paper: Use of Novel Vaccine Technologies for Emerging Viral Diseases

On April 10, 2018, Dr Anthony Fauci co-authors a viewpoint paper in JAMA Network setting the stage for novel genetic vaccines (mRNA or DNA) to shorten the time “to design, manufacture, and evaluate vaccines for clinical use…in response to newly emerging infections”.

“The time-honored approach to vaccinology,… has not adequately met” the challenge of “emerging viral diseases with pandemic potential.”  So this paper looks to “exploit modern-day technological advances.”

[Reading this paper in retrospect summarises  the “vaccine solution” response to Pandemic 2020.]

“Historically, the process of vaccine development through to licensure requires decades…[i]n total, 15 to 20 years would be a typical timeframe from virus discovery to vaccine availability if the process proceeds smoothly and there are no major biological or logistical challenges.”

…[H]owever, clinicians and public health officials are often faced with outbreaks of viral diseases, sometimes of a pandemic nature that would require vaccines for adequate control.”

“Rapid genetic sequencing allows both early identification of new pathogens and the identity of the genes encoding structural proteins that can form the basis for vaccine immunogen development.”

“Synthetic vaccinology and platform manufacturing are important innovations that can speed the initial vaccine immunogen design and vaccine development process, and shorten the time needed for manufacturing and initial regulatory approval to begin phase 1 testing.”

“The process of gene synthesis is now extremely rapid…[t]hese genetic vectors (DNA and mRNA) can be used directly for immunization whereby intramuscular immunization leads to muscle cells producing the viral proteins. Alternatively, the genetic vectors can be used to express recombinant protein antigens, in vitro, that can be used for immunization.”

“The term platform …in vaccine production… implies that the method for generating and presenting a vaccine immunogen can be applied across multiple pathogens.”  “DNA or mRNA nucleic acid vaccines are good examples of how platform manufacturing can shorten timelines from pathogen identification to phase 1 clinical trials.” [1, 2]

“DNA vaccine delivery and immunogenicity have evolved and improved over the last 2 decades, making it a viable platform for vaccination.”

Based on NIAID experience “Once these pathogens were identified, the time from viral sequence selection to initiation of the phase 1 clinical trial was shortened from 20 months to slightly longer than 3 months.”

“Traditional approaches, such as live-attenuated virus vaccines (eg, Sabin polio) or whole-inactivated virus vaccines (eg, Salk polio) would not qualify as platform approaches because the requirements for growth in cell culture and purification are usually different among virus families. Protein-based approaches … may not be amenable to platform approaches.”

“Having a standard manufacturing approach reduces the time needed for current Good Manufacturing Procedures process development and simplifies regulatory approval because the safety database that has accumulated for a given platform can be applied to multiple vaccine products.

Dr Fauci published another paper on “novel vaccine technologies” in Nature in November 2019…all in time for pandemic 2020.

mRNA vaccines are still in “preclinical studies” in September 2018.

May 8 2018

WHO STAG-IG group began

On May 8-9, 2018, the WHO Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme led by Dr Mike Ryan, convened a meeting to prepare for the establishment of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH), a multidisciplinary group of external experts newly tasked with advising the Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response on new and emerging infectious hazards that can threaten global health security.  A program “ underpinned” by the International Health Regulations.  The members of STAG-IH are chosen by the WHO Director-General, of which a current member include the Robert Koch Institute’s Prof Lothar Wieler.

COVID – 19 Meetings are here.

May 15 2018

Clade X – US bio-terrorism Simulation

On May 15, 2018, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and held in Washington, DC, high level officials participated in a day-long pandemic tabletop exercise called Clade X. [1, 2]

“Drawing from actual events, Clade X identifies important policy issues and preparedness challenges that could be solved with sufficient political will and attention.”

A fictional elitist cult had financed the creation of a deadly virus called “Clade X ” in a bio-lab in Zurich, with the aim of reducing the global population. A Global pandemic resulted upon it’s fictitious release.

In the end, the outcome was tragic: the most catastrophic pandemic in history with hundreds of millions of deaths, economic collapse and societal upheaval” — Clade X pandemic simulation (May, 2018)

The simulation concluded that the world wasn’t prepared for a global pandemic.

May 24 2018

Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Formed

Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) was created in response to recommendations by the UN Secretary General’s Global Health Crises Task Force mid-2017.

The predecessor Global Health Crises Task Force was created in 2016 in response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, they stated “Recent health emergencies, including the 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, shed light on the major gaps in sustained political will, action, and sustainable financing for preparedness” and they recommended “the need for robust ongoing monitoring of global health emergency preparedness.”

The GPMB was formally launched in 24 May 2018, with their first meeting was held Sept 2018, the board is co-convened by the WHO and the World Bank Group and is said to be “an independent monitoring and accountability body to ensure preparedness for global health crises”, with funding that has come from the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, & Germany. [1]

The GPMB commissions,  prepares and “publishes an annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies that provides an authoritative assessment that is easily translatable to action for policymakers, researchers, health professionals and donors”.  The September 2019 report “A World At Risk”.

In Sept 2019 the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security release a timely report titled “Preparedness for a High-Impact Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic”, and then in September 2019 the GMPB release their complied report “A World At Risk”, a month later in October 2019 Event 201 was held.

The founding co-chair Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, was (may still be) a member of the Trilateral Commission and wrote “Our Common Future“, the book that popularised the term Sustainable Development, and provided the framework for the UN Agenda 21 in 1992.

Many of the Board members have been intimately involved with steering the pandemic narrative:

  • Co-Chair –  Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland – Served as WHO Director-General 1998-2003
  • Co-Chair – Mr Elhadj As Sy – Red Cross
  • Dr Victor Dzau – President Nat. Acad. Medicine
  • Dr Chris Elias – President B&M Gates Foundation
  • Sir Jeremy Farrar – Director Wellcome Trust
  • George F Gao – China’s CDC
  • Dr Anthony S Fauci – Director of NIH
  • H.E. Sigrid Kaag – Netherlands
  • Prof Ilona Kickbusch – German/Switzerland
  • Henrietta Fore – UNICEF
  • Dr Yasuhiro Suzuki – Japan
  • Prof Veronika Skvortsova – Russian Federation
  • Prof K VijayRaghaven – India

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May 31 2018

Bill Gates predicts a large and lethal pandemic in our lifetime

Bill Gates writes in a NEJM perspective on May 31, 2018, “Thanks to better vaccines” we’ve made headway on diseases.

“Yet there is one area where the world isn’t making much progress: pandemic preparedness. This failure should concern us all, because history has taught us there will be another deadly global pandemic. We can’t predict when, but given the continual emergence of new pathogens, the increasing risk of a bioterror attack, and the ever-increasing connectedness of our world [population growth] , there is a significant probability that a large and lethal modern-day pandemic will occur in our lifetime.”

“What the world needs is a coordinated global approach to pandemics that will work regardless of whether the next pandemic is a product of humans or of nature.”

The percentage of people who choose to get a seasonal influenza vaccine is fairly small, but modelling simulations suggest a “highly contagious and lethal airborne pathogen” could see “33 million people worldwide would die in just 6 months”.

[2 1/2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic 6.3 million deaths have been recorded worldwide]

On May 29, 2018 the Gates foundation “launched a $12 million Grand Challenge … to accelerate the development of a universal influenza vaccine” in order to end the “pandemic threat”.  He noted “the current influenza vaccines significantly underperform.”

“However, the next threat may not be influenza at all.”

Late 2018 CEPI will award grants “to several companies, working with a variety of technologies, including nucleic acid vaccines, viral vectors, and other innovative approaches. The goal is the capability to develop, test, and release new vaccines in a matter of months rather than years.”

If we can learn how to use RNA or gene delivery effectively, we may not need to make the antibodies at all. Instead, new methods of gene delivery could enable our own cells to produce these antibodies directly.”

“In the case of biologic threats, that sense of urgency is lacking.”  The “world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.”

June 6 2018

Merck launches RNA Particle (RP) Technology Vaccine Platform for Swine

On June 6, 2018 Merck Animal Health announced their new RNA Particle (RP) Technology Vaccine Platform first product targeting Pigs, called SEQUIVITY™ which they launched at the 2018 World Pork Expo. [1, 2, 3]

Sequivity™ RNA Particle Technology, is an alphavirus replicon vector system, where the platform allows for “Veterinary Prescription” or customised herd-specific “vaccines” [5]. “After receiving the sequence, it is synthesised into RNA and inserted into the SEQUIVITY platform, which generates RNA particles. When injected in the animal, these particles provide instructions to the immune cells to translate the sequence into proteins which act as antigens.” [4]

Merck state that “Millions of doses of the SEQUIVITY vaccine platform have safely been used by veterinarians in swine herds for more than ten years since the USDA first issued the license in 2012.” This is becasue Merck purchased Harrisvaccines who first gained USDA approval in September 2012.

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June 8 2018

Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute is launched

On June 8, 2018 the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundations launched a subsidiary, non-profit company, a “biotech-within-a-charity” with an initial $273 million 4-year grant injection.  It is called the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI) and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [1, 2]

The start up company is said to “focus on developing interventions to fight persistent epidemics, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and enteric and diarrheal diseases”.

“Gates MRI hopes to apply new understanding of the human immune system learned from cancer research to prevent infectious disease, and plans to take drugs, vaccines and other assets from preclinical stages all the way through clinical trials to regulatory approval” [3]

June 29 2018

TGA Advertising Code defines a “serious form of a disease”

Legislation changes to Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code defines a “serious form of a disease” was restricted in 2015, and opened up in June 29, 2018 with an update, to be anything deemed “medically accepted” as a serious disease or a diagnostic test available (see Section 28). [1, 2]

August 10 2018

FDA: first-in-class drug approval paves the way for RNA-based medicine

On August 10, 2018 the FDA approved  patisiran (Onpattro) by Alnylam pharmaceuticals.  This is a “first-in-class” drug is a small interfering RNA (siRNA) drug that work inside the cell at the RNA level.    The FDA anticipates that [RNA-based Medicine] is the beginning of a new and exciting generation of therapeutics”  [1, 2, 5]

The phase 3 trial included 225 patients with a “rare and frequently fatal” hereditary disease called transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR), 148 were given the treatment  [3]

Onpattro drug formulation contains “lipid excipients (DLin-MC3-DMA, DSPC, cholesterol, and PEG2000-C-DMG)”, because of this registration, the lipid nanoparticle ingredient DSPC (1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), which is also used in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine as a structural lipid, is thus not conidered as “novel”, unlike the functional lipids ALC-0315 and ALC-0159. [4]

September 1 2018

China’s Digital Dictatorship set up for 2020

It’s been in the pipeline for years: a sprawling, technological mass surveillance network the likes of which the world has never seen.  Journeyman Pictures provide an insight into China’s Social Credit System (as scoring system) otherwise referred to as a digital dictatorship where every aspect of their life is monitored and rewarded or banned accordingly. [6]

The social credit scheme will become a “truly national unified system” i.e.mandatory by 2020.  Computer algorithms with phones and 24/7 camera surveillance is scoring, rating and controlling “bad” citizens, thanks to mass scale implementation and acceptance of technology coupled with Artificial Intelligence. [2, 3, 4, 5, 9]

The scheme was first unveiled in 2014 and after 2020 the next five-year plan, which covers 2021 to 2025, the regime has set out its ambitions surveil people even more. [7]

China believes their scheme is a broad way to encourage trustworthiness in it’s citizens through their mix of measures.

Have you noticed more cameras installed in your local main street?  Have you heard of Smart Cities? [8, 10, 11]

October 9 2018

Johns Hopkins Report: 15 transformative technologies to reduce GCBRs

On October 9, 2018 the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Secuirty released a report highlighting 15 emerging technologies or categories of technologies, with further scientific attention and investment, as well as attention to accompanying legal, regulatory, ethical, policy, and operational issues have the potential to reduce global catastrophic biological risks (GCBR), as they present “potentially transformative” technologies which would “complement traditional approaches to prevention, preparedness, and response”.  GCBRs is a concept defined in July 2017. The technologies include Self-Spreading Vaccines and Self-Amplifying mRNA Vaccines, and Micro-needle vaccine Patch. [1, 2, 3, 4]

This report highlights 15 technologies or categories of technologies that, with further scientific attention and investment, as well as attention to accompanying legal, regulatory, ethical, policy, and operational issues, could help make the world better prepared and equipped to prevent future infectious disease outbreaks from becoming catastrophic events.

“This report looks at technologies that are already available but have not been applied to an emergency situation before or are so new that they are still in development”, and “admits there are “substantial technical challenges” in genetically engineering a vaccine but technology such as the Crispr gene editing tool should make the job easier.”

2020 was too early for the self-spreading vaccines, but they are planned to be used for existing infectious diseases!! The WHO knowingly allowed this to occur for polio – they call it vaccine-derived polio!

October 16 2018

BioNTech CEO predicts mRNA tech for rapid vaccine development

BioNTech‘s founder and CEO Dr Ugur Sahin was a “Spotlight” speaker at the October 16, 2018 World Health Summit and Grand Challenges  annual meeting, which was held in Berlin, Germany. Other speakers included Bill Gates and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

In Dr Sahin’s speech he said [1, 2]

“his company might be able to use its so-called messenger RNA technology to rapidly develop a vaccine in the event of a global pandemic”

BioNTech was founded in 2008 by Dr. Sahin with his wife, Dr. Özlem Türeci.  By late 2018 it was still a little known European biotechnology start-ups which mostly focused on cancer treatments. [3]  Like Moderna, BioNTech had never brought a product to market.

A month earlier, 0n August 16, 2018 BioNTech announced a partnership agreement with Pfizer to collaborate on an mRNA influenza vaccines.

In September 4, 2019 the “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested $55 million to fund its work treating H.I.V. and tuberculosis”.

Starting September 24, 2019 BioNTech  announces commencement of their Initial Product Offering (IPO). [3, 4]

Prior to all this, in 2001, Dr. Sahin and Dr. Türeci founded Ganymed Pharmaceuticals, which developed drugs to treat cancer using monoclonal antibodies, in October 2016 they sold that company for $1.4 billion.

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