Already missing the COVID-19 pandemic? Well, fear not. The German-EU ‘Vaccelerate’ programme is already on the look-out for the next “pathogen with pandemic potential”, as authors affiliated with the programme put it in a new paper titled ‘Predicting the next pandemic‘.
The paper is devoted to a survey of the Vaccelerate consortium’s own members on the pathogen most likely to produce the “next pandemic” – or the next “potential pandemic generator”, as the authors also put it. The responses involved a ranking of the various candidates and were tallied using a points system, much like the Eurovision song context.
And the winner is…
Influenza! The flu was named by nearly 80% of respondents and garnered nearly one-third of the points. A hitherto unknown “Disease X” finished second, and the Coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 and SAR-CoV-1, finished third and fourth respectively. The full results are reproduced below.
The Vaccelerate programme grew out of the European Vaccine Trial Accelerator Platform (EUVAP), which was founded with a €600,000 grant from the German Government at the University of Cologne in 2020, during the initial rush to create a COVID-19 vaccine. (See here under “Vaccelerate”.) In early 2021, Vaccelerate as such was created as an EU-wide network with a major grant from the European Commission. Per its EU funding page here, the Vaccelerate programme has received no less than €26.5 million in EU funding overall.
According to the project description on the funding page, the programme’s original purpose, in keeping with the objective of EUVAP, was to create an EU-wide network of clinical trial sites and a registry of willing trial participants in order to fast-track specifically COVID-19 vaccine candidates. “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic creates an unprecedented burden worldwide” the description reads:
Vaccine-induced immunity is the only promising solution. There is continued need for phase two and three vaccine trials to reach long-term, large-scale immunity of the entire European population. Vaccelerate will be the pan-European backbone accelerating phase two and three COVID-19 vaccine trials.
With COVID-19 vaccines having already been rolled out in record time shortly before its launch, by the time EUVAP had morphed into Vaccelerate in 2021, however, this original purpose was, of course, largely obsolete. Hence, the programme’s pivot toward the next “pathogen with pandemic potential” is hardly surprising.
Indeed, the original project description already notes that “Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, [Vaccelerate] will be an established pandemic preparedness network, ready to face emerging future pandemics” and “enhance vaccine development capacity in Europe”.
The Vaccelerate website notes, moreover, that the programme “is funded by the European Commission’s activities for future pandemic preparedness, the HERA Incubator”. HERA is the EU’s Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority, which was likewise created in 2021.
The Vaccelerate consortium is led by the Clinical Trial Unit of the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF). The Clinical Trial Unit is based at the University of Cologne.
The DZIF is a German public agency which partners with pharmaceutical companies in developing vaccines. One of the DZIF’s partners is none other than BioNTech. See the screenshot from the DZIF website below. BioNTech is the German developer and in fact legal manufacturer of what is more commonly known as the ‘Pfizer’ vaccine. Pfizer performs (some) manufacturing activities as a contract manufacturer on BioNTech’s behalf (see here). BioNTech has also earned far more than Pfizer on sales of the drug.
The head of the DZIF’s Product Development Unit is none other than Klaus Cichutek, who is at the same time the President of the German vaccine regulator, the PEI or Paul Ehrlich Institute (so-named for the German immunologist, not the American population control theorist).
It is this dual role of enabler and regulator which raises obvious questions about the impartiality of the PEI’s oversight of the BioNTech vaccine, and these questions are all the thornier given the leading role which, by Cichutek’s own admission, the PEI plays at the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Oliver Cornely of the University of Cologne is both the Vaccelerate project leader and the coordinator of the DZIF’s Clinical Trial Unit. Cornely and Cichutek are pictured below in the DZIF’s 2020 annual report.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
Vaccination has become a bit like global warming, an article of faith and religion rather than fact
The cock up theory: bureaucracy moves slowly, once you put in regulations they’re hard to dismantle, politicians are spineless and incompetent.
The bad actors theory: global governance enthusiasts like Macron are holding the line, trying to lay the foundations for a social credit system, central bank digital currency, general enslavement of the population.
(I refuse any longer to refer to the non-cock up explanation of things as a conspiracy theory. The WEF and its intentions to promote world government are public and well known. The ambitions of Bill Gates to vaccinate and track every human on the planet have been stated by him openly on numerous occasions and his influence through GAVI and the WHO are plain to see. Central bankers have announced the development of CBDCs. The admiration of the Chinese social credit system by many western policy makers is real. The ambition of subjecting the world population to unprecedented control by a very powerful few is real and uncomfortably close to being realised. And those who refer to any of that as a conspiracy theories are the delusional ones.)
Well said. And to add to that, anyone who clings to the idea that there is anything benign about certification schemes for vaccines that demonstrably aren’t vaccines, is mentally ill, dangerous, and needs help. My own sister is one of them, she has a PhD and the level of delusion and cognitive dissonance is breathtaking.
W*nkers.
But I’ll just continue to play them with my self-administered aka no physical contact swab done in a national pharmacy chain for 20 quid, and then drive around all the Schengen countries regardless of their rules.
Just worked fine last month.
And the French customs agent in Folkestone didn’t even look at the test sheet. Even they now know it is and treat it like a farce.
Can you be more specific about the self adminsitered no-contact swab thing? I’m very interested in swabing my dog.
The pharmacy I use lets you do it yourself, oral or nasal, while they fill out the form.
No need to touch your gum when you stick it in your mouth, just doing an air swab.
I am reliably informed that dog slobber will provide the necessary result and also, rather than repeatedly paying for so called tests, keep the original negative result on file and use pdf edit to arrange the dates to suit your travel needs. As mentioned above, the French border police/douanes don’t care. (I believe the burden of ‘proof’ lies with the carrier anyway).
Well there goes our driving trip to Greece.
Macrony just cant stop helping the globalist cause.
Can you just say you’re driving through? Belgium is sensible. Not the most scenic route perhaps though.
‘The spike in the number of cases has occurred in spite of the vaccination rates in the country.’
‘In spite of’? Try ‘because of’.
Remember when, if everybody gets vaccinated we can all get back to normal?
And yet they won’t admit they were wrong and still insist people get booster doses despite overwhelming evidence that vaccination is driving increased infections and increasing the risk of hospitalisation and death from CoVid and a significant risk of injury or death from the vaccines themselves.
Just how much longer can they keep this up?
But the vaccines have saved 20,000,000 people because Neil says so.
Until the sheeple wake up ‘they’ can keep this going forever.
Hang on. I thought it was about a virus!! Funny how crack downs come after G7 meetings. Perhaps we should ban these get togethers?
FFS.
Les morons.
What’s worse are the countries that don’t let the unvaccinated in at all (though they’re all pretty stupid, as all the measures are bollocks).
I think we need to abandon all hopes of this thing going away. Sorry.
What a depressing but most likely true comment
Hmm I was planning to spend the ski season out there next year. Not if it means I have to have another booster. Time to find another country.
>would have to show proof they are immune [sic] to COVID-19.
My head is wobbling so much at this that I risk it falling off. The most ludicrous comment from a government in a long time.
“Have none of them noticed that vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission?”
Of course the do
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Macron a WEF member/puppet. What did you expect?? Despite the fact that EVERYONE knows these experimental biologicals don’t work, cause adverse events and deaths and repeat infection…..France continues its vaxx entry requirements
“The bill comes following a vote in the European Parliament last week to approve an EU Commission proposal to renew the EU Digital Covid Certificate for another year.”
…and in May 2023, the Etias visa waiver scheme comes into being, whereby passport and health details have to be input online to apply for the waiver to visit Europe. More tracking and surveillance…
https://www.etiasvisa.com/etias-news/etias-role-protecting-public-health