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  1. thinskin

    thinskin Porn Star Banned!

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    The US spent 70 days doing fuck all and there is even a Reuters report saying the US was warned at the end of November 2019!

    A freedom of information request should sort this out!

    First it was the Chinese, then it was impeachment and now its WHO!

    The fact of the matter is the US right here on xnxx kept singing whatever tune Trump was singing. Once it was ascertained that is was not a flu or a hoax or that it was not going to disappear like magic you look for someone to blame for your own greed and ineptitude in voting in a man who is incapable of leading he only feeds!

    Thinskin
     
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      In all honesty, I have some questions of WHO. Governments were following their guidelines and recommendations and far too many fucked it up.

      Seems to me in attempting to balance panic vs reality, erring on the side of caution cost way to many lives.

      We’ll see how this shakes out.
       
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      I think we all do sub but I do remember them urging.......test, test, test.

      Also remember the original brief of WHO was to safe lives in the third world, so that we in the west did not feel so guilty about epidemics of ebola in West Africa or other tropical diseases.

      That is why we pay for it.

      The models all assumed we could take care of ourselves!

      ts
       
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    deleted user 555 768 Porn Star Banned!

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    I did assume you were clever enough to figure it out...keep trying you'll get it.



    I dont add a link, its redundant as I copy and past the article, at times, taking great pains to colorize, font, etc, to help dumb fucked morons like yourself follow a thought .......but a mental deficient as yourself isnt capable of that


     
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      "I sincerely hope you're not suggesting I called you any of those things."
      absolutely not,... Its been a busy day of countering, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune from the East, to see the civility in the West.

      Printed words are more important to the masses, ....statistically speaking, its far more likely for someone to scan a colorized, highlighted article of main points, than to open a link(computer viruses, you know).
      Its quite easy to copy/paste and article without copy/paste errors...accuracy is assured, ...except for the lowest of the low, who arent honest and lack honor....To me that would be extreme of, of,,,,well, I'd rather not use that language in mixed company.

      When I write my memoirs and include some of my work from here, I surely will site sources, as a proper bibliography....and dont call me Shirley ​
       
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      Seeing as you two aren't going to get a room, uses mine, I'm not.
       
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      I knew this would get out, Subby...the walls do have ears
       
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      Now that its out in the open, What do ya say,... you..me at 1 TM's place, he wont stick around, I promise you a fine 4 olive martini ;)
       
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      See what a gentleman I am, ..didnt even suggest a hot tub,... I'll it leave you to for the invite :cool1:
       
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    You motherfucking, lieing, cock sucking, son of a bitch......you got some balls making that accusation.

    Your the reason political threads suck, you arent discussing politics, all your about is personal attack and make others look stupid and you lie to do it, spoiled fucking brat that you are!

    All you do is smear make up false bullshit about people(me), DICK HEAD....

    I dont edit anything, ever....to me that's dishonest, ...AND easily provable, DUMBASS.....
    I DONT PLAY THAT GAME MOTHERFUCKER....dont insult my intelligence with such a childish accusation, ...

    ...you cow fucking, dirty oilman blowing, got nothing else in his wasted life but being a big man on a porn forum, ...bet my taxes go to your welfare and food stamps, get off the Govt cheese, be a ditch digger or a rattlesnake rustler

    after this, your not worth the dead skin cells off my fingers left on keyboard, your opinion means nothing, your existence means nothing and you at present are a waste of skin, and....big man on the forum...DUMB ASS!
     
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  4. shootersa

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    Huh.
    So, @shy guy , tell us how you really feel.
    "...you cow fucking, dirty oilman blowing, got nothing else in his wasted life but being a big man on a porn forum...……."
    Holy shit, shy guy nailed it!
    Shooter goes off whistling "yellow submarine".
     
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  5. CS natureboy

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    You are so full of shit, I bet your eyes are brown....:hilarious:


    Fake Media Collusion as CNN Attempts to Run Cover for Discredited ABC News Story on Outbreak Intelligence Notifying Administration in November
    Posted at 12:15 pm on April 9, 2020 by Brad Slager

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    (Shealah Craighead/The White House via AP)




    Where are Brian Stelter and his outrage posse? CNN’s self-appointed arbiter of news corrections has not been outraged by a blatantly false report from ABC News, that Betsy Vaughn detailed this morning. Instead, his own network comes up with a follow-up report attempting to bolster the false claims. That effort is dismantled just as readily as the ABC News item, so a forensic exam is needed to extract all of the sophistry.

    As shown, the claim that was made by ABC is that the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) issued a report in November of 2019 ‘’warning’’ various government entities of this coronavirus outbreak in China. This report is said to have described the virus as an ‘’out of control disease’’ in China and submitted this assessment to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, and the White House.

    Except, there is nothing substantial at all to suggest any of this is accurate. ABC is relying on the usual practice of anonymous sources said to be familiar with the document. There is no copy of such a report found, no one going on the record, and the intelligence community has, in fact, come out and completely disputed the claims. Last night, the Defense Department came out with a statement that was not the least bit vague.

    As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists,” the statement said.

    This was a significant enough dose of journalism malpractice for the department to break protocol and completely refute this report. The above statement was issued by Col. R. Shane Day, who is Director of the very division this report was said to have originated from, the NCMI. This is not a piece of boilerplate PR denial from a division of the government, this is the head of the very department cited coming forward to say this report does not in fact exist.







    ABC News can even be seen trying to force this story from this past weekend. On the Sunday news program “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos was asking Defense Secretary Mark Esper questions about this suspected report. Even as Esper gave denials of knowledge of the document, look at how the network attempted to frame the exchange.

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    .@Gstephanopoulos: “Did the Pentagon receive an intelligence assessment on COVID in China last November from the National Center for Medical Intelligence?”

    Defense Sec. Mark Esper: “I can’t recall, George, but we have many people that watch this closely.” https://abcn.ws/2R9QZ8P


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    That appears an attempt to show this answer as an evasion. What was left off in this tweet was this follow-up exchange. Stephanopoulos asked of Esper, “So, you would have known if this was briefed to the National Security Council in December, wouldn’t you?” The secretary responded, “Yes. I’m not aware of that.” Despite these officials going on the record with categorical denials ABC still stands by the claims, based on completely anonymous sources.

    Meanwhile, over at CNN, Brian Stelter has been waging his personal crusade against Fox News. He has been very vocal in suggesting that the network has been trafficking in disinformation during the pandemic and costing the lives of unknown citizens. He has even gone so far as to hint that Fox News could face legal reprisals over its allegedly dangerous reporting. In that context certainly, the prospect that ABC News has been found to be enacting the very kind of false reporting he abhors would have Stelter rising up in opposition, correct?

    Uh, no.

    In fact, Brian was forwarding the news reports from his own network that were made in support of the ABC News claims. He retweeted this from Zachary Cohen, co-writer of the piece from CNN that served as a follow-up to the ABC story.

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    New: US intel WAS tracking rise of novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in Trump's daily briefing, CNN has learned.

    Follows earlier reporting by ABC News & denial by Pentagon. w/ @MarquardtA & @jimsciutto *not_secure_link*www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/intel-agencies-covid-november/index.html …

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    US intelligence agencies started tracking coronavirus outbreak in China as early as November
    US spy agencies were tracking the rise of the novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in President Donald Trump's daily intelligence briefing, a former US...

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    While shedding a bit more light on the details one thing that is astounding here is Cohen suggesting this story in any way backs up the ABC claims. He is making that case, while the story itself that he crafted says otherwise. Look at this section, that tells a wholly different version of the timeline of the intelligence.

    While the exact date of the first report remains unclear, sources told CNN that intelligence gathered in November and in the weeks following offered multiple early warnings about the potential severity of the pandemic now surging in the US.
    Intelligence is often only elevated to the highest levels of the government once analysts and officials reach a certain threshold of confidence in their assessment. That day came on January 3, the first day the President’s daily briefing included information the US intelligence community had gathered about the contagion in China

    How, in any fashion, can Cohen say this squares with the ABC report? Yes, operatives may have in fact begun collecting data in Wuhan of a possible outbreak last November. Except no report was distributed then, as ABC claimed. There were no official warnings made in November, as ABC claimed. The initial notification to the White House was not until January, not in November, as ABC claimed.

    And the CNN story carries with it — buried deep, mind you — yet another denial by a figure in the intel community denying this mythical report even exists.

    A defense official denied any such report existed, telling CNN, “NCMI and the Defense Intelligence Agency spent considerable time over the last 24 hours examining every possible product that could have been identified as related to this topic and have found no such product.”

    What we are being served here is an energetic insistence that something dire is in play, when there is no substantive evidence to back up any of the claims. Neither ABC News nor CNN obtained a copy of this report, and all allusions to it existing come from unnamed sources. Nothing tangible is offered up in these reports. ABC used no fewer than five reporters for its story, as well as testimony from in-house experts as well as the Stephanopoulos staff, and CNN also fields a team of 5 for the Cohen report, with another half a dozen in a prior piece it ran in response to the ABC News item.

    All of that manpower, and the resources at the disposal of these networks, and the story holds nothing at all of substance. This is the result of a media complex wanting to create a story and, when it did not have it, managing to massage the details and misrepresent the content. Brian Stelter and many others in the media are targeting Fox over purportedly false reporting. It appears what bothers them is any other outlet engaging in the very practices they employ on the regular.
     
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  6. Bron Zeage

    Bron Zeage I am a river to my people

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    So, it looks like China fooled Trump again. He had more than three years to get the US intelligence agencies up to snuff, so this kind of thing wouldn't happen, and when China smiles and tells him not to worry, it's just a bad cold, he believes every word of it.
     
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  7. CS natureboy

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    So did China fool the rest of the world as well, or just Trump???
     
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      I know.... These leftwing radicals on here can't see past their hate for all things orange man... They will continue to be childish and petty to the end in a time when the country should be coming together to work through this.
       
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      Mostly from panty waste pussies just mouthing off getting their 2 cents in
       
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  8. shootersa

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      More lies Trump was first briefed on Jan 2!

      ts
       
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  9. Bron Zeage

    Bron Zeage I am a river to my people

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    Is that the "But Mom, all the kids are getting fooled by China" defense? Those Chinese are so sneaky. I bet they did it just to make Trump look like he had no understanding of his job.

    Trump definitely got fooled. He got fooled so bad, he thought it would be over by now and all 15 people who had it would be feeling much better. Definitely all China's fault for pretending it was just a bad cold.

    Are you going to church this Sunday? The economy needs you.
     
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    1. shootersa
      There ya go.
      Attack, belittle.

      Dismissed.
       
      shootersa, Apr 10, 2020
    2. Bron Zeage
      It's all China's fault for being smarter than our President and all the people who work for him.
       
      Bron Zeage, Apr 10, 2020
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      Only someone as weak minded and anti-American as you Bron would think China has smarter leaders than the US.

      Nice to see you are still shilling for the Chicoms...:thumbsup:
       
      CS natureboy, Apr 10, 2020
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      This thread is becoming a safe space for the deluded right of america who theink blaming someone is better (and cheaaper) than doing something about it.......are they in for a rude awakening!:rolleyes:

      ts
       
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  10. CS natureboy

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    No, the fact is, China lied to the world about Covid-19 and the WHO helped them cover it up.

    You can't defend what you said so you resort to childish anecdotes.

    Majority of Americans approve of the way Trump has handled the virus.

    Besides, it seems the blue states are the ones with the big outbreaks and deaths.... Looks like the red states must have healthier people or perhaps the response by the state government in conjunction with the federal government had a better result...
     
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      "The fat orange fraud,... that useless orangutan"....your a big fuckin baby arent you! ....Cry me a river with your piss ass name calling! Any intelligence is muted by your whiny childlike demeanor...grow the fuck up!
       
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      You worship an idiot that made his way by tearing everyone else down and calling them names and now that the boot is on the other foot you want to claim no fair. Good damn lord man but up and stop acting like the little republican lap dog that you are now.
       
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      Nothing but buttfucked propaganda, your reason is flawed by your pathetic girlyman logic, ...you always sound like a dandelion getting pissed on by a dog,... whining and calling names, fucking crybaby!
       
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    5. Sanity_is_Relative
      Boohoo, you know that your personal jesus is a fucking fraud and still you worship it, he is a useless racist wannabe thug that has to lie cheat and steal to get by. You keep saying that calling people names is somehow not fair yet you and your orange messiah seem to love calling everyone else names.
       
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      Boohoo, you know that your personal jesus...

      is a fucking fraud

      and still you worship it,

      he is a useless racist

      wannabe thug

      has to lie cheat and steal to get by

      your orange messiah


      And your opinion should be respected, ...Why?​



      "calling people names is somehow not fair yet you ... seem to love calling everyone else names."...fling shit at me, I'll through it back
       
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  11. Bron Zeage

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    You say China lied. If China lied, then Trump was fooled by a lie. What's there to defend about that?

    He's the President of the United States of America, informed by the most powerful information gathering system in the world and he got fooled by a bunch of Chinese people who told him not to worry about anything. They had this bad cold under complete control. China played him for a chump. It's strange that a majority of the American people think getting fooled by a foreign government is a good way to handle the virus.

    I would have preferred he had put in place an intelligence team that could have given him the correct information instead of letting him be deceived by the Chinese government and then go on TV and tell the American people a bunch of stuff that wasn't true. Maybe that's just me.
     
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  12. slutwolf

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    This is as funny as kindergarten.

    It's like a comedy script by Laurel n Hardy
    narrated by Gary Glitter
     
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      While The Who sing "We Won't Be Fooled Again".
       
      Bron Zeage, Apr 10, 2020
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      lmao , yeah

      while Jimmy sings Star Spangler Banner
      to the joker
      reading ,,,
       
      slutwolf, Apr 10, 2020
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      Gary Glitter is in Britain's "P**do Alcatraz" HMP The Verne.
       
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    4. slutwolf
      Yep
      the perfect man for the job
      reason chosen
      fits right in
      :)
       
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    There must be some kind of way outta here
    Said the joker to the thief
    There's too much confusion
    I can't get no relief

    Business men, they drink my wine
    Plowman dig my earth

    None were level on the mind
    Nobody up at his word


    Hey, hey

    No reason to get excited
    The thief he kindly spoke

    There are many here among us

    Who feel that life is but a joke


    But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
    And this is not our fate
    So let us stop talkin' falsely now
    The hour's getting late,
    hey

    All along the watchtower
    Princes kept the view
    While all the women came and went
    Barefoot servants, too
    Outside in the cold distance
    A wildcat did growl
    Two riders were approaching
    And the wind began to howl

    All along the watch'tower
     
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    Congress probes role of Jared Kushner as federal government seizes orders of COVID-19 medical supplies

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/co...t-seizes-orders-of-covid-19-medical-supplies/
     
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    If we are going to totally amp out on this, what are we going to do when we face a REAL crisis??

    We are treating this like it’s late December 1941.

    That was the time for panic. Now is not!
     
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    Maybe a timely warning for people who don't think this needs taking seriously.

    Our biggest cluster is from a wedding.

    Nobody was sick or showing any signs of being unwell at the wedding.

    Word is everything was done according to the limits in place at the time.

    Now there are 86 attendees have tested positive for corvid19 so far .

    Turns out one had recently returned from overseas.

    How many more yet to show ?

    No-one knows.

    There are some very concerned families with older members infected ,

    and waiting to see who else.

    So 86 infected so far , from one day at one event at which nobody had any sings of any illness.
     
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    This is how many people died today as of one minute ago.

    Get a grip! Get a perspective!

    F04BCC3E-0FE1-47D6-A140-DC4ED1BBCEFF.png
     
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      Shit for brains......these figures are estimates and what do you suggest we do with the infected?

      Presumably those with a trust fund get a ventilator but what about the rest?

      Heartless and absolutely fucking clueless you are.:rolleyes:

      All you do is moan and bitch like someone used to having his arse wiped his whole life!

      ts
       
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      Whats wrong with you Cirdellin...only foreskin can post death counts...how many days on lock down, s, havent seen the good morning thread yet
       
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    April 10, 2020, 07:38 GMT

    Coronavirus Cases:
    1,607,595

    Deaths:
    95,785

    Recovered:
    357,164

    ACTIVE CASES
    1,154,646
    Currently Infected Patients
    1,105,509 (96%)
    in Mild Condition

    49,137 (4%)
    Serious or Critical
     
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      That means a total of about
      450,000 cases have resolved so far , of which about 22% ended in death.

      That will not be the end result death toll ,
      by a long stretch , but no-one knows yet how the figures will play out.

      It is a warning though for any taking this lightly ,
      be prepared to look more than a little silly ,
      and possibly very stupid ,

      unless you join the deceased.
       
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    Anybody who does not think this is a crisis is an idiot.......besides we have green shoots here in the lowlands and there are already plans, funds and assistance to help businesses become virally aware and competent and that is how it is going to be for quite a while!

    Virally aware becomes a marketing tool........if you do it properly then your business will survive!

    Thinskin
     
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    2nd coronavirus vaccine trial begins in US using 'skin-deep' shots
    4/10/2020

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    U.S. researchers have opened another safety test of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, this one using a skin-deep shot instead of the usual deeper jab.

    The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told the volunteer lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday.


    “It’s the most important trial that we’ve ever done,” Dr. John Ervin of the Center for Pharmaceutical Research told The Associated Press afterward. “People are beating down the door to get into this trial.”

    The experiment, using a vaccine candidate developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals, is part of a global hunt for much-needed protection against a virus that has triggered an economic shutdown and forced people indoors as countries try to stem the spread.

    A different vaccine candidate began safety testing in people last month in Seattle, one developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. About two-thirds of that study’s participants have gotten the first of two needed doses.

    Inovio’s study is set to test two doses of its vaccine, code-named INO-4800, in 40 healthy volunteers at the Kansas City research lab and the University of Pennsylvania. Inovio is working with Chinese researchers to also begin a similar study in that country soon.

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    In this Wednesday, April 8, 2020 photo provided by the Center for Pharmaceutical Research, a participant in a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine trial receives an injection in Kansas City, Mo. This early safety study, called a Phase 1 trial, is using a vaccine candidate developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals. (Center for Pharmaceutical Research via AP)

    These early-stage studies are a first step to see if a vaccine appears safe enough for larger tests needed to prove whether it will protect. Even if the research goes well, it is expected to take more than a year before any vaccine could be widely available.

    Dozens of potential vaccines are being designed in labs around the world, expected to begin this testing process over the next several months.

    “The good thing is we’ve got a bunch of candidates,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the NIH’s infectious diseases chief, said during a podcast for the Journal of the American Medical Association Wednesday.


    Most of the vaccines under development have the same target: A spike protein that studs the surface of the virus and helps it invade human cells. Yet many work in quite different ways, making it crucial to test different options.

    Inovio researchers packaged a section of the virus’ genetic code inside a piece of synthetic DNA. Injected as a vaccine, the cells act as a mini-factory to produce harmless protein copies. The immune system makes protective antibodies against them — primed if the real virus ever comes along.

    Inovio research and development chief Kate Broderick likens it to giving the body an FBI wanted poster so it can recognize the enemy.

    But after the skin-deep injection, researchers must hold a device over the spot that gives a little electrical zap. The synthetic DNA is large when it comes to penetrating human cells, and the pulse helps the vaccine more easily penetrate and get to work, Broderick said.

    DNA vaccines are a new technology. But Inovio has experimental vaccines against other diseases that are made the same way that have passed initial safety testing.

    And at least one showed hints that going skin-deep somehow sped the immune system’s development of protective antibodies, University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Pablo Tebas told The AP. Tebas leads the this latest new COVID-19 study.


    The NIH’s vaccine candidate, manufactured by Moderna Inc., works similarly, except it uses a type of genetic code called messenger RNA and is injected deeper — into the muscle.

    Neither NIH’s nor Inovio’s potential vaccines are made using the actual virus, meaning there’s no chance of getting infected from the vaccines -- and it’s possible to make far more quickly than traditional shots.
     
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