from The Spectator
Professor Nikolai Petrovsky has just developed Australia’s first successful vaccine in 40 years. In any approximation of a normal world, he would be feted as the living incarnation of the government’s much trumpeted aspiration to be an ‘innovation nation’. Instead, he has been stood down by his university and threatened with arrest if he sets foot in his office. Why? For refusing to be immunised with one of the vaccines approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
It’s ironic. Petrovsky was immunised with his own vaccine more than a year ago. Recently concluded phase III trials show it is far safer than any vaccine approved by the TGA and better at preventing infection with and transmission of the Sars-Cov-2 virus. This week, the TGA recognised the Chinese Sinopharm and the Indian Covaxin vaccines as effective. Yet the TGA refuses to look at Petrovsky’s Australian vaccine until he pays a fee of $350,000.
The travails of Petrovsky are a cautionary tale of governments picking losers and punishing winners. Aside from being professor of medicine at Flinders University, director of endocrinology at the Flinders Medical Centre and vice-president and secretary-general of the international Immunomics Society, Petrovsky is the founder of Vaxine, an Australian biotech company that has won numerous awards, developed successful vaccines against Sars and Mers and is funded by the US National Institutes of Health.
Despite an outstanding record of achievement, Petrovsky’s application for funding to develop a Covid vaccine was rejected by the federal government. Instead, the government funded a project developed by the University of Queensland and backed by CSL, the only vaccine manufacturer in Australia. Before phase I trial results had even been completed, federal health minister Greg Hunt announced an investment of $1.7 billion to pre-order 84.8 million doses of the UQ and AstraZeneca vaccines. The project never made it beyond the phase I trial, but CSL still refuses to manufacture Petrovsky’s vaccine and the federal government refuses to fund a vaccine that is not manufactured in Australia.
The results of Petrovsky’s trials in monkeys, ferrets and hamsters showed not only that his vaccine was safe but that vaccinated animals produced neutralising antibodies in the nose and throat, blocking transmission to animals which had not been immunised. Before injecting the vaccine into a single person, Petrovsky injected it into himself to demonstrate his confidence in the product. Compare that with the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla who began dosing people with its experimental vaccine on April 23, 2020. Bourla didn’t get his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine until 21 March 2021.
Vaxine was the first Covid sub-protein vaccine in the world to gain regulatory approval, on 8 October, beating Swiss-American pharmaceutical giant Novartis, which teamed up with the Bill Gates-backed Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and this week gained regulatory approval for its Novavax vaccine. Yet rather than being a great Australian success story, Petrovsky has had to team up with an Iranian manufacturer to produce his Covax-19 vaccine, sending Australian manufacturing jobs offshore, and is using a GoFundMe site to raise the $350,000 to pay the TGA fees which go directly to the Commonwealth Department of Health.
Why has Petrovsky faced so many hurdles? There is no doubt that there is a highly influential vaccine establishment which has played along with the fiction that Sars-Cov-2 could not have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Petrovsky was one of the first major Western scientist to say that having studied the virus, it was highly unlikely that it could have acquired its unusual characteristics other than in a laboratory. That would have angered powerful and influential people.
But is there something murkier? Petrovsky says a government MP told him that doors would remain closed to him in Canberra unless he paid a lobbyist to open them. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi on the other hand all have the deepest pockets to smooth their way. Whatever the truth, this week, the nation’s most successful vaccinologist was stood down during a global pandemic and South Australia sacked ten per cent of its healthcare workforce because they refused to comply with the same draconian, unscientific and unethical vaccine mandate. And this, a fortnight before the state’s borders will open to wide-scale infection which will inevitably lead to increased hospitalisations of vulnerable people.
Petrovsky was sacked even though he may well have better immunity than those who are sacking him. And the vaccine mandates remain in place even though the most recent vaccine surveillance report in the UK states that vaccine effectiveness wanes after ‘the first three to four months’ and that the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine, even at its peak, only provides 65-75 per cent protection and both AZ and Pfizer wane to no effective immunity within six months. Indeed, in every age group over 30, the vaccinated are more likely to get infected than the unvaccinated. The mandates also refuse to acknowledge that infection-acquired immunity is as robust as vaccine acquired immunity, even though this is backed by 102 research studies, and according to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor Dr Marty Makary, data from Israel shows that natural immunity is 27 times more effective than vaccinated immunity.
‘We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying’ wrote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. How did it come to pass so quickly that Australia feels like a former Eastern bloc country where virological Lysenkoism is an official doctrine, dissidents are sacked, the newspapers report propaganda and the truth is relegated to social media samizdat?
In his 1961 farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned that ‘the prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded’, and ‘in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite’. Eisenhower said it was the task of statesmen to balance these forces within the principles of our democratic system so that security and liberty could prosper together.
Sadly, there is no one to hold a candle to him today. If we are to get out of this mess, we must save ourselves.
Just approve Nikolai Petrovsky Vaccine and stop being so selfish….Is what the Australian people want… Keep up the good work… If they Don’t approve your vaccine I hope they refund you all your money back…
Yet the TGA refuses to look at Petrovsky’s Australian vaccine until he pays a fee of $350,000.
Just the same as any other vaccine (or drug manufacturer). There are five vaccines approved for use in Australia, and they have all followed the same pathway.
The difference is that they applied for approval and presented a huge dossier of safety and efficacy figures. Professor Petrovsky has not done that.
What is TRULY and REALLY disgusting is that none of our the Governments is actually in place for our benefit!
If they really cared about our welfare they’d have stumped the chickensht amount given that their “grants” of HUNDREDS of billions of $$$$ to big Pharma are a dud (for us but not necessarily for them)..
Not to mention running a study on the “effectiveness” of successful and cheap prophylactics such as Ivermectin. Instead they shut down the economy, wrecked small businesses and locked us up how many times in the last two years?
Agreed.ED
This is disgusting. I have followed this Professor and put my name down to trail his vaccine as I won’t have the others as I don’t trust their safety. My goodness, I wonder whose paying our TGA to be so prejudiced against a star Australian developer. His vaccines are being used in India and Iran with no side effects, while people all over the world are getting ill from all the others. This is primal negligence.
Easy to see the reason – Petrovsky isn’t paying huge bribes to pollies and public officials.
Our God given immune system is always superior to vaccines but then no money changes hands! Viruses by their very nature attenuate so what is the point in even contemplating to discover a vaccine?
just another example of the kill Tesla mindset. the elites need to be taken down never to surface again
We should demand a Royal Commission into this issue.
“Yet the TGA refuses to look at Petrovsky’s Australian vaccine until he pays a fee of $350,000.”
The Government people are in the middle of a national emergency. They’re dealing with the big players and don’t have time to play for chickensht amounts.
But you’d think they might be interested in fronting up for the chickensht dough given it’s about 1/2 hr of PCR testing nationwide and an Australian gig to boot!. It would save us billions and even make us billions.
Oops! But hang on, we’re talking Australian politicians here. Barf!
Pls see video mark 53:00 where here Professor Nikolai Petrovsky says he raised the alarm about a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed at the time by the University of Queensland and CSL Industries. The Australian government terminated this deal in December 2020 to purchase 51 million doses.
Pls read the “find out more” under the video
https://twitter.com/PaulTTEaster/status/1492111260862791681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492111260862791681%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investmentwatchblog.com%25
I wouldn’t give them the $350k. They’d just take the money and run and never approve the vaccine anyway.
Video – Professor Nikolai Petrovsky – Vaccines and biodefense: COVID-19, flu and beyond
22 Jun 2021
Professor Nikolai Petrovsky talks about the general landscape of biodefense vaccine development worldwide and Covax-19, the only active Australian clinical-stage COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
The Vaxine team based at Flinders in Adelaide led by Nikolai Petrovsky has for the last 20 years been developing novel vaccines and drugs against pathogens that pose major public health or biodefense threats including influenza, Ebola, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, anthrax, ricin and COVID-19 with funding support from the US National Institutes of Health. The team has employed the latest technologies in synthetic gene design, biofermentation, computer-aided design and artificial intelligence to help accelerate vaccine development. clinical-stage COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Professor Nikolai Petrovsky is Research Director, Vaxine Pty Ltd and Professor of Medicine, Flinders University
Nikolai Petrovsky is Chairman and Research director of Vaxine Pty Ltd, an Adelaide-based biotechnology company focused on vaccine development, together with being a Professor of Medicine at Flinders University and Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre. Over the last 16 years he has been principal investigator on five NIH vaccine grants totaling over 50 million dollars, with a focus on development of vaccine adjuvants and pandemic vaccine platforms. He has authored over 200 research papers and has won prestigious awards including 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. His current focus is development of the Covax-19 vaccine against COVID-19.
Mark – 50.50 for Qs and As
I STILL fail to see how ANYONE can develop a “vaccine” against a “virus” that has yet to be isolated, let alone proven to actually even exist? Has Petrovsky simply developd an updated flu vaccine?
First of all, I applaud Dr Petrovsky’s efforts in the race to find a vaccine against a respiratory virus but why is he being given the title of the Nations most successful vaccine vaccinologist?
He was successful to Phase 3 trials on animals.
He didn’t have any ill effects when he injected himself.
Anything else?
I also take issue with the view that SarsCov2 is anything more than a computer generated model on which the Biotechnology Companies have attempted to develop a new vaccine.
We are still waiting for any evidence of SARS CoV2 being isolated in an actual person.
The truth is, that the University of Qld took the ethical path of saying no to using a HIV Molecular clamp in their vaccine development and so stopped at the Clinical 1 trials.
In other words, they didn’t want to upset people who might get a (false positive?) HIV blood test in the future.
In my estimation, I applaud the ethical stance that was made by UQ.
If people start to test positive for HIV from other vaccines that have used the HIV Molecular clamp, it will not be UQ’s fault.
Dr Petrovsky is founder of an Australian Biotechnology Company “Vaxine”
This Biotechnology Company is funded by the National Institute of Health.
That would be Fauci and his cronies.
You just lost me there.
Until people wake themselves up to understanding that their own immunity will far outweigh any injectable, then the world will continue to go around in circles.
We need to give ourselves permission to catch a cold, catch the flu, build immunity.
Eat better, sleep better, live better.
Vaccines wane after a few months because they are an inferior product.
They always will be.
Corporate Governments decide who they are in bed with.
The contract ink had already dried.
Ultimately they don’t want a vaccine against a respiratory virus.
They want to do clinical trials using mRNA technology and they want people to be their guinea pigs.
Why that might be so, remains anyone’s interpretation.
This man deserves a medal. But the govt had done a deal with Gates , who was here and in NZ discussing business,Like injections, Land deals also ?
Our govt has a very bad reputation over helping and funding Australians who discover design, develop and patent any number of wonderful things.They usually have to end up going off shore. . The govt will not cannot cannot organize a chook raffle. But I m convinced there is a much more sinister motive, in this two week lockdown to flatten the curve. $350,000, to look at it ?
What happened to the 1.7 billion dollars that Hunt used to buy all those Jabs and never use?
Hi I am not sure but I heard of the Safe Soda guy won case against TGA maybe he can help with this case??????