The European Union (EU) has started developing a “fax vax” in preparation for the “next pandemic.”
The German-EU “Vaccelerate” program is already on the lookout for the next “pathogen with pandemic potential.”
Scientists affiliated with the program have detailed the plan 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.”
The responses involved a ranking of the various candidates and were tallied using a points system.
Influenza 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 program 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