It would appear that the Israelis will be ready to release an oral COVID-19 vaccine within 90 days, yet where is the coverage of this story in our media?
TEL AVIV Israeli scientists said they are days away from obtaining the active component of a coronavirus vaccine that could lead to human testing as early as June 1.
We are in the final stages and within a few days we will hold the proteins the active component of the vaccine, Chen Katz from the Galilee Research Institute Migal biotechnology group told The Jerusalem Post.
The team has already begun testing on mice and is working with the relevant authorities to ensure the product will be considered safe for human trials set to begin on June 1.
According to Katz, since the vaccine is oral, regulatory procedures will be shorter.
The quality of this kind of vaccine should be closer to food regulations than pharma regulations or somewhere in between, Katz said. We hope that we will not need to go through the complete purification process like in the drug industry, because that could delay us.
In February, Migal said the vaccine would be ready in 8-10 weeks and have it market-ready within 90 days. Katz told the Post they were delayed because it took longer than expected to receive the genetic construct that they ordered from China due to the airways being closed.
The oral vaccine could turn this disease into a very mild cold, Katz told the Times of Israel earlier this month, adding that vaccinated individuals who become infected by COVID-19 would likely not be affected at all.
TheHeaths said
02:13 PM Apr 18, 2020
Certainly hope they are correct. It will be a game changer.
Tony Bev said
12:47 AM Apr 19, 2020
It sounds promising, Dorian
They may have stumbled onto something, as the claim to have:- Snip from the article spent the past four years developing a vaccine protect poultry from the avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), a virus strain similar to the novel coronavirus currently plaguing the world
I have no idea, if pride or politics, are involved to suppress this information
I would think that as there has been a lot of claims, about fast tracking a vaccine, by various sources, then not everything will be reported without cold hard facts
Anyway, 1st June is just around the corner, so we may just have to hurry up, and wait
dogbox said
07:20 PM Apr 19, 2020
have heard nothing about it from any other source
Greystone said
07:34 PM Apr 19, 2020
Check the source. Breitbart is not a reliable source for information.
aussie_paul said
08:21 PM Apr 19, 2020
Daughter Emma is very good at checking stuff out for me and this is her response.
False: while Israeli scientists are working on developing a vaccine for COVID-19, such a vaccine is not yet approved, is not already in mass production and will not be arriving in the U.S. within a fortnight.
Aussie Paul.
-- Edited by aussie_paul on Sunday 19th of April 2020 08:21:30 PM
-- Edited by aussie_paul on Sunday 19th of April 2020 08:24:32 PM
aussie_paul said
10:15 PM Apr 19, 2020
This is worth watching in our current "virus" situation. Recorded in 2015.
-- Edited by aussie_paul on Sunday 19th of April 2020 10:26:41 PM
dorian said
08:45 AM Apr 20, 2020
I'm confused. MIGAL stated in February that the vaccine would be ready for human testing n 90 days, and now they are stating that human trials will take 30 days. That's 120 days, isn't it?
Katz, Biotechnology Group Leader at the institute, said: By the time the protein is ready, we hope to have found the right partner who can take us through the clinical stage. The clinical testing experiments themselves are not so long, and we can complete them in 30 days, plus another 30 days for human trials. Most of the time is bureaucracy regulation and paperwork.
. . .
Katz clarified that the 90-day time frame in the February 27 statement was until the product is ready for human testing, and said he still believes this is realistic. He said that skeptics should understand that his team is not working on new research, but rather customizing an existing innovation, meaning that a fast turnaround is realistic. He stated: The important thing is that we were working on a vaccine, unrelated to this outbreak, and this is a great advantage.
It would appear that the Israelis will be ready to release an oral COVID-19 vaccine within 90 days, yet where is the coverage of this story in our media?
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/04/08/report-israeli-scientists-to-test-virus-vaccine-on-humans-by-june-1/ (8 April 2020)
http://www.migal.org.il/en/node/7010
TEL AVIV Israeli scientists said they are days away from obtaining the active component of a coronavirus vaccine that could lead to human testing as early as June 1.
We are in the final stages and within a few days we will hold the proteins the active component of the vaccine, Chen Katz from the Galilee Research Institute Migal biotechnology group told The Jerusalem Post.
The team has already begun testing on mice and is working with the relevant authorities to ensure the product will be considered safe for human trials set to begin on June 1.
According to Katz, since the vaccine is oral, regulatory procedures will be shorter.
The quality of this kind of vaccine should be closer to food regulations than pharma regulations or somewhere in between, Katz said. We hope that we will not need to go through the complete purification process like in the drug industry, because that could delay us.
In February, Migal said the vaccine would be ready in 8-10 weeks and have it market-ready within 90 days. Katz told the Post they were delayed because it took longer than expected to receive the genetic construct that they ordered from China due to the airways being closed.
The oral vaccine could turn this disease into a very mild cold, Katz told the Times of Israel earlier this month, adding that vaccinated individuals who become infected by COVID-19 would likely not be affected at all.
It sounds promising, Dorian
They may have stumbled onto something, as the claim to have:-
Snip from the article
I have no idea, if pride or politics, are involved to suppress this information
I would think that as there has been a lot of claims, about fast tracking a vaccine, by various sources, then not everything will be reported without cold hard facts
Anyway, 1st June is just around the corner, so we may just have to hurry up, and wait
Daughter Emma is very good at checking stuff out for me and this is her response.
tl;dr:
VERDICT
False: while Israeli scientists are working on developing a vaccine for COVID-19, such a vaccine is not yet approved, is not already in mass production and will not be arriving in the U.S. within a fortnight.
Aussie Paul.
-- Edited by aussie_paul on Sunday 19th of April 2020 08:21:30 PM
-- Edited by aussie_paul on Sunday 19th of April 2020 08:24:32 PM
This is worth watching in our current "virus" situation. Recorded in 2015.
https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI
Aussie Paul.
-- Edited by aussie_paul on Sunday 19th of April 2020 10:26:41 PM
I'm confused. MIGAL stated in February that the vaccine would be ready for human testing n 90 days, and now they are stating that human trials will take 30 days. That's 120 days, isn't it?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-made-oral-vaccine-for-coronavirus-on-track-but-testing-will-take-months/
Katz, Biotechnology Group Leader at the institute, said: By the time the protein is ready, we hope to have found the right partner who can take us through the clinical stage. The clinical testing experiments themselves are not so long, and we can complete them in 30 days, plus another 30 days for human trials. Most of the time is bureaucracy regulation and paperwork.
. . .
Katz clarified that the 90-day time frame in the February 27 statement was until the product is ready for human testing, and said he still believes this is realistic. He said that skeptics should understand that his team is not working on new research, but rather customizing an existing innovation, meaning that a fast turnaround is realistic. He stated: The important thing is that we were working on a vaccine, unrelated to this outbreak, and this is a great advantage.