From the New York Times. Unlike other borrow, this is a deal today scientists are racing to make a vaccine against the corner virus. Catherine bent on how that ways, is not just about creating the vaccine, but about which country It's Wednesday April forced so at the end of December. These scientists around the world, but basically looking at this outbreak of the strange was dear

yes, illness and will hand China, and at this time the media, especially the western media, isn't really paying attention to this thing at fire, emergency and sadness. Australia, tales in USA strikes Iraq impatiently over to the shared, but scientists already beginning to puzzle through what this could be. It seemed like a respiratory thing. It reminded some of them off diseases like Mercer Sars and some other things have come along and recently years, but at this stage there just kind of corresponding with each other on their social media. Saying hey! What is this thing and that's how the story begins for one doktor based in Germany, Lydia, hospitals, Heine, India, Bushels

no don't. I don't know what language does. People Lydia Catherine Catherine, who is Lydia asphalt, doesn't good. English is good People I'm so Lydia works for the german company called cure back. They work on vaccines as well as cancer treatments, and they do molecular therapies and the beginning. Take me back to the moment when you first I heard about this new virus. Do you remember that moment? I mean because, of course, my social media, I'm gonna, get the end of her Christmas holiday Lydia. I was seeing these pulse and she was wondering if this was maybe something she and her team could work done and the things like. Oh, what is this? What is happening there is that something that could were home could make a vixen and do. But at that stage he couldn't it because she didn't have the genetic sequencing of this virus and actually the same

was true for scientists around the world were wondering the same thing, and so they were all kind of just wondering and waiting and then, on January tens. The sequencing was actually published by these chinese scientists, who put it on a public page for basically all the world's scientists to see. I got the message like ok vetoes he could soon can go ahead. This is kind of when the clock starts taking, but it's not a rate Yet I mean at that moment it was not a pandemic, it off an outbreak in China. At this point they didn't actually exactly know what they were racing against, though it was still kind of just a regular process. They draw up a presentation, so we were preparing these guys to consent. To forget this is something we could do and rethink its usual that we will do it just creating the slides

Presentation and ass she started. There was literally one death, one known death in China, and by decided we, then the meeting with the management each day almost we had to update the number of cases that appears in this house I need something really I I remember very well, that's, ok! Additional people died. What is this violence and that's only two and a half months ago now it was genuine events. Management green light at the project. This isn't late January, the funding came through two, let's get going and that's when they really got to work and what did that work? Look like in the beginning. What does it mean to create from scratch a vaccine so remember, basically, what you're trying to achieve with the vaccine is you want to create something?

add mimics the pathogen the virus, and you won inject that into a healthy bodies, so that that healthy body can read that information understand what the pathogen looks like and form anti bodies to fight it and neutralize it, and I mean you have surely this picture loader vital that everybody in the new and so was always showing with this I mean it's like this, all the things that that stick out of it. Basically, this cute little ball with spites right and that's actually the proteins that you have to neutralize with anti bodies to fight the fires and that's what you actually asked the cells of the of the human body to make I mean it's despite not actually the bomb than a bad, so this whole project is about coming up with a vaccine in

enter the body prompt and immune response, and that response will somehow, despite the spikes of the current virus, that's the idea were now in February and as their working on this over the Philippines, though you first corona virus death outside of charter on Sunday thank invest from corona virus outside of mainland China, Hong Kong, health, the visual thing, a thirty nine, the potentially deadly corona virus, has turned up in a new country. This morning, Belgium report in its first cave, corona virus is beginning to spread across, world and cure of acts puts this vaccine development ahead of any other projects. So this is now becoming a major priority within this company. This is an urgent project, yeah and they're, not the only ones you ve got come

these all over the world in China, in the U S across Europe, everybody is now looking at this as a high priority. So Lydia team, basically are working on a number of prospective vaccines. They have these different combinations at the trying out this form digital visible in this form, and in early march they beginning to actually inject them into my eyes to see what the effect is illegal. We say my men exultant work in my then you don't even have to press men because they know down seven, and then we don't solicitude. And then before about liquor, to two to sort out most promising prospective vaccines This is a time when the cases are speaking in ITALY, the number of deaths, the rising, including in Germany, where the lap is based and the up in the? U? S is well services. Basically now in Lydia's backyard, Now, in our own backyards, everybody is

ok from morning till evening and then having something still trying to get some sleep, because it's not a splendid said mother, told me alone again there. So we should not be exhausted. Now cease being told by the government to work remotely, she has to sort of direct this team off lab scientists who are still going into the lab working careful. And trying to practise social distancing mobile phone calls from morning till evening, so you have to struggle to find the time to run getting to work to get something to eat. It suggested the incredibly difficult, but it's also emotionally incredibly straining. She said every time she watches the news that fills are withdrawn and I see our compared to yesterday. No ex people have died and external on infected, I mean just to tell you: I never have nightmares, but more recently, I was dreaming that I was sitting with my people- colleagues,

and then they re focus bets through over our heads and then I will see you know, and I really dreaming about is now actually make bets through. So the sheer strain and distress of this work in the circumstances of an actual outbreak in her own country is intense I mean it. It must be tat any sort of living and, as you just reveal dreaming the SAM I mean I have to imagine that comes with the sort of feeling of enormous responsibility. I mean we ve talked a lot of doctors. We say we had very vulnerable moments, broken down crying in hospitals. You know with a flood of patients coming in some of whom they can't help. I mean it's or anything like that happening with your car. As far as I know not, and that difference is that if you see a patient coming in that you know, you will be able to save, because he is already so sick,

and you can save him a new scene dying your hands. That's an enormous frustration of our part of the work is being something to prevent that anybody ever have to leave this. So that's not the same kind of emotional pressure. I would say I mean we have the pressure that we have to go quick because we have four countries, something that can save this from happening but be building something that will give hope to the people.

Catching. You mentioned that Libya and her team are testing potential actions in mice, but how soon to expect that they would have a final vaccine ready for shipments. So the next very important steps will be touchy test this thing in clinical trials, meaning injecting into actual humans, and at the moment they sort of hopeful that the human trials can begin in June and July and that Lydia S ass would put them on track for developing an actual vaccine. That can be used for mass and said which kind of sounds far away, but is incredibly fast. Normally, vaccines can take like a decade even fifteen years to develop so they really speeding up this process and how does that time

And how does that timelines stack up against other companies around the world potential rivals to Lydia? You ve got a lot of companies speeding things up around the world. I mean you ve, gotten governments drain and remove bureaucratic hurdles and speed up approval procedures. There's a chinese company that is already moving into the clinical trial phase in recruiting for human trials. There are moving at an credible, unbelievable clip because now they are in a race against time and cure

back they're kind of considered to be among the leading aid companies to be working on this, do you think is possible that your team could be the first to develop an actual vaccine on the market that could be. It could be that you cannot know at this moment, because I think the other and I see the data for mobile complete. I think that the whole of very promising approaches about of ours is also so yeah, and do you think that that's why President Trump try to buy your company, the I'd like to know where he's coming for me, it was like we do to try them and that's probably why President tromp approach that company and made a real

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So much of what was this unusual offer from the Jump administration yeah? It was a very unusual offer as though it started a couple weeks ago. Was home on a Sunday with my family, and I check my social media. Just checking. What's going on in this story was making the rounds about the american president having approached this german vaccine maker, so I called my editors and we decided to look into it, and what did you find so we learned that one day in early March there's this meeting at the White House. Thank you

today we are meeting with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies the biggest in the world, most prestigious, the ones that get down to the bottom line very quickly to discuss how the federal government can accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutic treatment for the corona virus. Were the White House basically invites to doesnt companies to round table discussions about the prospect of developing a vaccine against covert nineteen? The corona Myers John Cyber Taxing research run and developers have been acting generals to bundle said on this year and these companies were all american all, except one of cure that Cuba, so Lydia's company.

Right? The key point being that we believe we can develop a vaccine, nineteen very, very quickly, wherewithal to manufacture and additional soon begin. We proceed the opportunity to be here today and we don't know the exact sequence of events by tourists. After this meeting, President Trump has been accused of trying to look a german pharmaceutical company working on a corona virus. Fact, to the? U S, this german newspaper reports that Trump offered the company one billion dollars to relocate to the United States. While it quotes an unnamed german government official who said he worried that trunk once exclusive access to future vaccine did he basically ones to secure access to this vaccine

Americans first, so in Germany you can imagine this obviously sense of a stir and you basically have people scrambling to get the narrative right. If american officials saying that the reports were quote overblown responding to the report, the? U S ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenelle rode on Twitter. The belt story was wrong. Then the company rejects the claim outright, although its mature shareholder premature, confirms that an approach at the made. So no one really knows what exactly happened, except that the sea off the company in America who had run it for two years, leaves the company and he's replaced by German. Just a few days after that meaning, and then two days later, this chinese company offers a hundred thirty three million dollars to another leading german company. Also,

Ghana back seat and Catherine. What is your understanding of the large from both the United States. What are they trying to accomplish so behind this raise is a pretty harsh, but pretty simple, we money, and it is one that Lydia herself talked about any new vaccine that is effective against the corona virus is certain to be in short supply initially, so those who develop at first will try to ensure but their own people a first in line for it. So whoever controls the company nationally control does that early distribution of the vaccine whether that Germany or China or the United States exactly and people actually remember the World- is now

at the start of the two thousand and nine influenza pandemic, the swine flu, but governments said today that each one end one flew Has caused more than one thousand deaths in the spring when the swine flu came along in two thousand and nine and an australian company was the first to ring a single those backing to market. It was obliged, at the time by its own government to service the australian market. First, before an expert on the United States and other countries. While the World Health Organization says there is not enough. Swine flu vaccine for everyone manufacturer that really rattled the United States. It kind of spurt this outrage with a very much. Mr Germany. Thank you for convening in this important area each one in what has been done

You had congressional hearings. Everyone wanted to know why there was a shortfall from the folks I hear from my district. They can't find the vaccines when I called the eighteen Osborne was in my district, each one of them asked where's the vaccine that we were told was coming, and you know swine flu is not on the same scale as this corona virus, so this could potentially be a lot more serious and all of a sudden, that's the urgency that we see unfolding in and that's the urgency that has now led to this kind of nationalist patriotic instinct to come out in several countries. You'd think, Michael, that everybody would benefit if we would just work together and make sure that this vaccine was produced and then dispersed kind of to the people who need it most first and so on. The problem is that there is going to be a shortage,

and so there is a certain amount of rationality in trying to get your hands on it. First by governments represent their own people even more so as we find ourselves in this historic moment where nationalism, populism have been on the rise and where the trust level between governments are pretty low, so in that sense The fight over this vaccine is a bit of a proxy for a larger question right, which is what This become a nationalist moment this pandemic, despite the fact that it's also an incredibly global mom and, and a reminder of our connecting us exactly and effectually good to come back to the scientists for a moment, because the scientists have a very clear answer to all of this. They thing this is about global cooperation. They think this is a global problem.

That needs a global solution and even though they all work for companies that you know we'll times are in competition with one another. They are adamant that they want to work together. It all started, in fact, if you go back to January tenth with the publication of the genetic sequencing of this virus, that was a chinese scientists that posted this genetic code online for every scientist in the world to see and that's when scientists across the world started working towards a common goal? In their view, Ah, I beg you to give legal stability, the governments are thinking first about the population, because that is their job. I mean my job is to make affection, but can protect

people worldwide, making if action that can only protect Europeans or Americans. So so my job is to get a good vixen out. So why would I first somebody my country who any visas various somebody, lotta country, who perhaps perfecting an And trying to cure all of people with a risk of his life, to talk to me, to make the decisions based on medical needs as a common sense not all political agenda, Lydia thank you is still very much. You ve already done so much important work and I wish you guys are the best black and his healthy. Now you to stay at home and not me

too much too many people and instead good shape we are already to be vaccinated when action is ready and can go to normal life. On Wednesday the times reported that the global scientific community, his overwhelmingly rejected these. He was, and chinese government characterisation of Karuna Virus research as a biotech arms race. Never before those researcher say, have so many experts in so many countries focused, simultaneous on a single scientific quest with so much urgency, exchanging information as it becomes a day and launching clinical trials that rely on laboratories and hospitals from around the world.

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You'll trial, unlike any we have ever faced before he was doing a briefing on Tuesday from the White House. President Trump issue, his most dire warnings yet about the pandemic, telling Americans let it would ravage the country for the night Few weeks I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. Gonna go to a very tough to which the president then turned over the pudding to public health officials.

Revealed estimates of the? U S: death toll from the corona virus with and with our attempts to keep Americans at home based on multiple academic studies. In their estimates, they had between one point, five million and two point: two million people in the United States are coming to this virus without mitigation, yet through their detailed studies and showing us what social distant thing would do, what people what would happen if people stayed home? What would happen if people were careful every day to wash their hands and worry about touching their faces, and that takes us down

to one hundred to two hundred thousand deaths, which is still way too much? There's no magic bullet is no magic vaccine or therapy. It's just behaviors. Each of our behavior is translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next thirty days. Thank you. On Tuesday, several more states in cities ordered resident to remain in their to including printing Dc Virginia and merrily is a deadly public. Health crisis We are no longer asking or suggesting that Maryland or stay home. We are directing them to do so.

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