Harris and Stewart busted into the trailer in a park in Alamance County, but were confronted soon after by 18-year-old alleged cartel member Alonso Lara, the county sheriff, Terry Johnson, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference. The trailer belonged to the vicious Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, or the New Generation Jalisco Cartel, one of the globe’s most powerful drug trafficking operations, cops said. How I’ll secure the border and end the fentanyl crisis killing our townsĬheese wheels filled with 18 pounds of cocaine seized at Texas borderĪ North Carolina teacher was gunned down in a shootout with members of a Mexican drug cartel last week, a report said.īarney Harris, who taught and coached basketball at Union Academy in Monroe, and his brother-in-law Steven Stewart were allegedly trying to steal drugs and cash from a trailer used by the cartel last Thursday when all hell broke loose, WTVD reported, citing authorities. If everything went perfectly, Graham said a vaccine could be ready within 12 to 18 months – the prediction Fauci would soon make public.Armed men believed to be Mexican cartel members wearing body armor spotted crossing southern border into TexasĬolombian drug lord ‘more prolific’ than Pablo Escobar sentenced to 45 years in prison - ordered to pay $216M “Barney, let me worry about the money,” Fauci replied. Graham asked if there would there be millions more available. “Let’s make a vaccine.”įauci had already set aside $5 million for the small Nipah demonstration project. Yet Graham already had his team diving into how to defeat the new coronavirus just to prove it could be done. In early January, there was no reason to assume COVID-19 would be any different. There had been two other novel coronaviruses since 2003, although neither SARS nor MERS were terribly contagious and neither became pandemics. Fauci is no micromanager he hadn’t even been aware until then how confident Graham was in his ability to make a coronavirus vaccine. Graham later laid out the idea for Fauci, his boss’s boss, in a conference room at NIH. “This would be a great time to run the drill for how quickly can you have a scalable vaccine.” “If it’s a SARS-like coronavirus, we know what to do,” Graham wrote. 6 email, in favor of a different proof of concept related to the Wuhan outbreak. We should scratch the Nipah plan, he urged Stephane Bancel in a Jan. Not only is Heath and Garcia-Roberts’ piece a compelling read, it’s very accessible in its explanations and illustrations on how SARS-CoV-2 attacks and infects the human body, and how the Moderna vaccine actually works.Īs Graham got word through back channels that the new virus in China was probably a coronavirus, he reached out to Moderna’s CEO, who was vacationing in France. It’s Graham’s years-long effort - and the work of “a constellation of unsung scientists” including Jason McLellan and Kizzmekia Corbett - that put the pieces in place for Moderna’s rapid turnaround. in 2016, and later Nipah, the virus spread by bats that broke out in India in 2018 (and inspired the movie Contagion). He’s dedicated his career to studying viruses and developing vaccine candidates, most recently for the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which reached the U.S. Barney Graham is the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health. As David Heath and Gus Garcia-Roberts report in their gripping story at USA Today, credit for the swift development of the COVID-19 vaccine goes to an unheralded team of scientists and a series of pivotal discoveries in the last 15 years, all of which paved the way for the Moderna vaccine.
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