While he was promoting the COVID-19 fear, though, there were some interesting things going on with Dr. Fauci's NIAID/NIH along with Bill Gates's "Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations" (CEPI — reportedly co-founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017) and Moderna, a COVID-19 vaccine–maker recently given emergency use authorization by the FDA. Moderna does not have any approved products on the market (the COVID-19 vaccine is still unapproved) but set a record for the biggest biotech initial public offering in December of 2018. In a U.S. government document, Moderna wrote (emphasis added):
NIAID is one of the "institutes" in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Fauci leads NAIAD but does not lead the entire NIH. Was Kinney sloppy? Unintentionally unclear? Or doesn't know what all he's talking about?
Kinney couldn't look up CEPI in W'pedia and give full information? From W'pedia, :
CEPI was conceived in 2015 and formally launched in 2017 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. It was co-founded and co-funded with US$460 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Wellcome Trust, and a consortium of nations, being Norway, Japan, Germany; to which the European Union (2019) and Britain (2020) subsequently joined. CEPI is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. In 2017, Nature said, "It is by far the largest vaccine development initiative ever against viruses that are potential epidemic threats". In 2020, CEPI was identified by several media outlets as a "key player in the race to develop a vaccine" for coronavirus disease 2019.
I wonder why Kinney didn't mention that Norway, Japan, and Germany were co-founders of CEPI? And didn't mention that the EU and UK are coalition members? Did the Kinney dishonestly withhold information because it didn't fit his
bogeyman-conspiracy theory?
Did Kinney not want his readers to think about why BioNTech (German company), Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca (UK and Swedich company) might work with an NGO with ties to the governments of Norway, Japan, Germany, the EU, and UK? Was he afraid those thoughts would lead to conclusions other than his
bogeyman-conspiracy theory?
"Moderna does not have any approved products on the market (the COVID-19 vaccine is still unapproved) ..." ... Wowzers! What company didn't, early in company history, have a first product?
"... but set a record for the biggest biotech initial public offering in December of 2018." Moderna was founded in 2010 to develop its mRNA-based technology (BioNTech, which also used mRNA technology in its and Pfizer's vaccine was founded in 2008). Moderna obviously believed they were ready, after over 7 years' development work, to go public. The financial marketplace obviously agreed. So, how is this suspicious? Is Kinney insinuating that Moderna's leadership and the financial community - thousands or tens of thousands of people - knew that Moderna had developed a vaccine for a secret disease that would become pandemic over a year later?!
I'm not sure even RFK Jr. would try to sell a conspiracy theory that dumb!It is not an exaggeration to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines — which currently require two doses — could quickly become trillion-dollar products; every time a "new strain" or "new variant" of SARS-CoV-2 is claimed to be discovered, a new vaccine could (wrongly) be said to be necessary.
As I've mentioned multiple times, vaccines requiring two doses are not unusual. The Shingrix vaccine, for example, is a two-dose regimen. Kinney also seems unaware that of the five vaccines in Phase III testing that are working with OWS, Johnson & Johnson's is being tested as a single-dose vaccine (a two-dose regimen is also being tested, but that test started more recently). I know I could be seen as nitpicking, but what's with the omissions? Ignorance? Agenda?
"Trillion-dollar products"? Yeah, maybe, eventually in some years or decades, but there are over a hundred vaccines in testing that could then compete for that market. Should the developer and manufacturer of a necessary product not be paid for their hard work? In this real world, if companies cannot profit from developing and manufacturing, those medications won't be won't exist. As a rather wise guy said some 34 centuries ago, "The laborer is worthy of his hire."
"Every time a "new strain" ... of SARS-CoV-2 is claimed to be discovered, a new vaccine could .. be said to be necessary." The real world, unsurprisingly, is contradicting Kinney's claim. Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and Regeneron (the latter two produce monoclonal antibody, "mab", treatments for Covid) have all expressed confidence that the recently discovered "new strains" are attacked by their products. So this claim is a
dishonest or ignorant Straw BogeyMan.
Speaking of the real world, Moderna's people worked their tails off, developing a working vaccine by January 12, 2020, two days after the DNA sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was leaked from China. That is the kind of development time mRNA technology sets up (AbCellera's/Eli Lilly's and Regeneron's mab technology also enable fairly quick development cycles, as does the gene-splicing technology Oxford/AstraZeneca used)). I haven't seen development date info for BioNTech, but the timing of their Phase I testing is consistent with a similarly quick development time.
Speaking further of the real world/i][/b].
