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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All that left over junk has to be used up somewhere. I expect they are already designing the new labels to stick over the Covid 19 labels.
Might be good investments for those who are not worried about ethics. The modern equivalent of tobacconists, perhaps. However, the claim that “Vaccine-induced immunity is the only promising solution” is open to doubt by the intelligent critics. In the real world, there are lots of safe and effective ways of improving immunity.
“In the real world, there are lots of safe and effective ways of improving immunity.”
Yes, but none of them are serious money-spinners….
True, at the top end of the market. But if you look at relevant supermarket shelves you’ll see that there are quite a few high strength vitamin D products on sale now, with careful labelling – like one I’ve got at home. It’s a 50 µg vitamin D3 tablet product which “SUPPORTS NORMAL IMMUNE SYSTEM FUNCTION” . Take your pick.
And none of them will give the Authorities the power of control over the peasants.
Indeed, tjough tobacconists and their suppliers merely offered (and advertised) their wares, rather than forcing people to use them through threatening to sack them, fine them, stop them accessing anywhere, telling them that NOT using their wares would kill the vulnerable…
The “next pandemic” is getting more publicity than the next destined to be a flop Disney release.
I wonder if the two are somehow related?
It’s amazing how much foresight they have, isn’t it, Huggles? Almost as if they wrote the script. But no, they wouldn’t do that, would they?
“Vaccine-induced immunity is the only promising solution.”
Says who?
Mr. Scientific Consensus?
On what basis?
Wasn’t really true, let alone worked, last time around, was it?!
Heads-up fellow DS users ! All this background Jab noise is the establishment laying the foundations for when they get the new pending WHO treaty pushed through !!.. After which your front door will be kicked in & all manner of Fauci,s ( remember him ) Brew will be administered whether we like it or not !! Yippee !!!..
Every country is building a digital vaxxID program. The EU Reich is supposed to roll it out next year. Just in time for disease X i guess or the plague from climate changey thingy.
“Vaccelerate” sounds like something the Daleks would say – ‘Vaccelerate…Vaccelerate…Vaccelerate!’ Swap needles for the gunstick (the Dalek weapon of choice) and you’ve got a whole new sci-fi narrative…except it ain’t sci-fi! Come to think of it, a programme called ‘Dr WHO’ seems more plausible than ever.
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Just a cock-up, incompetence…
Dearie me, this is all getting so tedious now. We do not need this constant onslaught of medical bolleaux… as in you can’t survive without constant bl**dy medical surveillance. It’s all utter tosh.
Can’t we round up all these medical to$$ers into a camp somewhere, for their own safety, and ours? I hear there are plenty of unused army and RAF camps with accommodation available.
This is what you get when you have too many politicians and bureaucrats paid for with money printed out from thin air because we don’t have it.
A bloated state paid for with borrowed money,captured by narrow commercial interests working together to screw and enslave populations.
German-EU programme means somebody wants this and gets whatever money he needs from the German government.
Additional clarification: This is gets in the meaning of takes from and not is given by. I didn’t mean to say that the German government wants to support this for some reason of its own, just that it’s the usual source of funding for such projects.