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Trump luring German firm into developing COVID-19 vaccine only for Americans: Report
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Trump is certified nutcase.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2120IV?__twitter_impression=true
Germany tries to halt U.S. interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine
Paul Carrel and Andreas Rinke
FILE PHOTO: Employee Philipp Hoffmann, of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research workflow on a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Picture taken on March 12, 2020.
Reuters/Andreas Gebert
FILE PHOTO: Florian von der Muelbe, COO of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, explains the company’s research on a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Picture taken on March 12, 2020.
Reuters/Andreas Gebert
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.
German government sources told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. administration was looking into how it could gain access to a potential vaccine being developed by a German firm, CureVac.
Earlier, the Welt am Sonntag German newspaper reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure CureVac to the United States, and the German government was making counter-offers to tempt it to stay.
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Responding to the report, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, wrote on Twitter: "The Welt story was wrong."
A U.S. official said: "This story is wildly overplayed ... We will continue to talk to any company that claims to be able to help. And any solution found would be shared with the world."
A German Health Ministry spokeswoman, confirming a quote in the newspaper, said: "The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe."
"In this regard, the government is in intensive exchange with the company CureVac," she added.
Welt am Sonntag quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists' work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, "but only for the United States."
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told a news conference that the government's coronavirus crisis committee would discuss the CureVac case on Monday.
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CureVac issued a statement on Sunday, in which it said: "The company rejects current rumors of an acquisition".
CureVac's main investor Dietmar Hopp said he was not selling and wanted CureVac to develop a coronavirus vaccine to "help people not just regionally but in solidarity across the world."
"I would be glad if this could be achieved through my long-term investments out of Germany," he added.
A German Economy Ministry spokeswoman said Berlin "has a great interest" in producing vaccines in Germany and Europe.
She cited Germany's foreign trade law, under which Berlin can examine takeover bids from non-EU, so-called third countries "if national or European security interests are at stake".
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Florian von der Muelbe, CureVac's chief production officer and co-founder, told Reuters last week the company had started with a multitude of coronavirus vaccine candidates and was now selecting the two best to go into clinical trials.
The privately-held company based in Tuebingen, Germany hopes to have an experimental vaccine ready by June or July to then seek the go-ahead from regulators for testing on humans.
On its website, CureVac said CEO Daniel Menichella early this month met Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and senior representatives of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to discuss a vaccine.
CureVac in 2015 and 2018 secured financial backing for development projects from its investor the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working on shots to prevent malaria and influenza.
In the field of so-called mRNA therapeutics, CureVac competes with U.S. biotech firm Moderna and German rival BioNTech, which Pfizer (PFE.N) has identified as a potential collaboration partner.
Drugs based on mRNA provide a type of genetic blueprint that can be injected into the body to instruct cells to produce the desired therapeutic proteins. That contrasts with the conventional approach of making these proteins in labs and bio-reactors.
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In the case of vaccines, the mRNA prompts body cells to produce so-called antigens, the tell-tale molecules on the surface of viruses, that spur the immune system into action.
Companies working on other coronavirus-vaccine approaches include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (INO.O).
(Additional reporting by Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss in Frankfurt; Editing by Alexandra Hudson and Alexander Smith)
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2120IV?__twitter_impression=true
Germany tries to halt U.S. interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine
Paul Carrel and Andreas Rinke
FILE PHOTO: Employee Philipp Hoffmann, of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research workflow on a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Picture taken on March 12, 2020.
Reuters/Andreas Gebert
FILE PHOTO: Florian von der Muelbe, COO of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, explains the company’s research on a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Picture taken on March 12, 2020.
Reuters/Andreas Gebert
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.
German government sources told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. administration was looking into how it could gain access to a potential vaccine being developed by a German firm, CureVac.
Earlier, the Welt am Sonntag German newspaper reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure CureVac to the United States, and the German government was making counter-offers to tempt it to stay.
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Responding to the report, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, wrote on Twitter: "The Welt story was wrong."
A U.S. official said: "This story is wildly overplayed ... We will continue to talk to any company that claims to be able to help. And any solution found would be shared with the world."
A German Health Ministry spokeswoman, confirming a quote in the newspaper, said: "The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe."
"In this regard, the government is in intensive exchange with the company CureVac," she added.
Welt am Sonntag quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists' work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, "but only for the United States."
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told a news conference that the government's coronavirus crisis committee would discuss the CureVac case on Monday.
ADVERTISEMENT
CureVac issued a statement on Sunday, in which it said: "The company rejects current rumors of an acquisition".
CureVac's main investor Dietmar Hopp said he was not selling and wanted CureVac to develop a coronavirus vaccine to "help people not just regionally but in solidarity across the world."
"I would be glad if this could be achieved through my long-term investments out of Germany," he added.
A German Economy Ministry spokeswoman said Berlin "has a great interest" in producing vaccines in Germany and Europe.
She cited Germany's foreign trade law, under which Berlin can examine takeover bids from non-EU, so-called third countries "if national or European security interests are at stake".
EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE
ADVERTISEMENT
Florian von der Muelbe, CureVac's chief production officer and co-founder, told Reuters last week the company had started with a multitude of coronavirus vaccine candidates and was now selecting the two best to go into clinical trials.
The privately-held company based in Tuebingen, Germany hopes to have an experimental vaccine ready by June or July to then seek the go-ahead from regulators for testing on humans.
On its website, CureVac said CEO Daniel Menichella early this month met Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and senior representatives of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to discuss a vaccine.
CureVac in 2015 and 2018 secured financial backing for development projects from its investor the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working on shots to prevent malaria and influenza.
In the field of so-called mRNA therapeutics, CureVac competes with U.S. biotech firm Moderna and German rival BioNTech, which Pfizer (PFE.N) has identified as a potential collaboration partner.
Drugs based on mRNA provide a type of genetic blueprint that can be injected into the body to instruct cells to produce the desired therapeutic proteins. That contrasts with the conventional approach of making these proteins in labs and bio-reactors.
ADVERTISEMENT
In the case of vaccines, the mRNA prompts body cells to produce so-called antigens, the tell-tale molecules on the surface of viruses, that spur the immune system into action.
Companies working on other coronavirus-vaccine approaches include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (INO.O).
(Additional reporting by Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss in Frankfurt; Editing by Alexandra Hudson and Alexander Smith)
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The world after covid-19 is going to be a very different place. Europe have seen how america have tried to just secure their own interest in this whole fiasco, there is gonna be a huge political alignment changes coming in few months.
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Lol, survival of the wealthiest.
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An American rightly commented on the news that Italy may not provide medical care to aged people due to shortage of resources.. He said in the US, priority will be given to people with money...
What a joke of a country it is.. Pakistan as a poor country with sub standard government healthcare still doing better.
Sir ji.. you know where I work.. The future is looking absolutely dark from what I could understand till now.
There needs to be a shared response from countries without thinking about money for now.. The US and its followers are moving in a completely different direction.
Corona will bite them very hard!
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I had a long discussion with a few doctors, they suggested that it will definitely infect many of us and the key now is to prevent a condition that requires hospitalization (because hospitals will not be available for new patients). Wanted to make a thread but then I thought people know about it mostly..
So what should we do? They say:
1 - Eat a lot of fruits packed with vitamin C.. Guava, Oranges, Apples, Pineapples, Pomegranate etc.. actually, they suggested to replace existing one regular meal of the day with these fruits.. and a lot of them.
2 - Take vitamin D supplements.. that give more than 250% of the daily allowance.
3 - We should have a good stock of green tea and honey.. and the poultry or turkey soup will also help a lot if we get the infection.
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Here in the UK multi vitamins shelfs are pretty much empty in the high street, so I found a few potential sources online, my plan is have approx 3,000 UI vit D3 daily (for upto 3 months), and Vit C 1000mg Daily, I know fruits should be your first choice, but I've never been fond of them, and now with food scarcity you'd be lucky to get 'some' there is also a potential risk of cross contamination, as they would be handled by many. I'm just speechless with the government response, where they blatantly want to virus to spread to most of the population and expect at least 500K-1M to die, yet there is not much of an outcry from the public you'd be expecting nothing less than the french revolution...
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Nothing will happen... These white people are together against brown and chinese people.
US is devoid of any morality..All this talk of Human rights and democracy is to fool gullible people...
US has always been a capitalist state with no regard to human life. They may preach equality for all but we all know it is a lie.
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I would suggest eating fruits.. any fruits..
Some studies suggest that half an apple (although it contains very less vitamin C) creates an anti inflammatory and anti oxidant activity of 150% of the daily allowance of vitamin C.. scientists still couldn't find out the reason why it happens... maybe the natural combination of different substances in a fruit makes them extremely strong.
If you suspect cross contamination, peel off the skin..
But if you don't like fruits, its fine... you can go for off the shelf multivitamins.
Vitamin D in any case can't be obtained without sun (some fish have it.. but then it's easy to get them from a pharmacy).
Let me tell you about another thing.. don't make fun of me.. start eating olive leaf extract and black seed oil (one teaspoon every other day). Both will save you and your family from a lot of diseases.. telling you by experience..
If you don't believe, just search for the benefits of olive leaves and black seed oil... you will be astonished.. there are plenty of research studies available on the net.
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