Aren’t Public Health England going to be pissed at this?
The world’s second-biggest cigarette maker claims to have made a “significant breakthrough” in the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus and would be ready to start mass production within three months.
British American Tobacco (BAT), the FTSE 100 company behind Lucky Strike and Dunhill, said it could be producing up to 3m million doses of a vaccine a week by June – far faster than rivals, which are expecting to take at least a year.
BAT intends to start trialling its vaccine in humans as soon as possible. It is running pre-clinical tests and holding urgent talks with US drug authorities to fast-track permissions.
The treatment is being developed by the company’s health division Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), which has previously come up with a drug to combat Ebola. It claims to have found an antibody that appears to fight Covid-19, and is manufacturing this using genetically modified tobacco plants….
The very thought of it, that Big Tobacco might be of some use!
It’s ticking most of the boxes in just “genetically modified tobacco” 🙂
Combine that with the news I saw on Samizdata that the Israelis are close to a vaccine, and the socialist twats will have a choice:
1) Support Big Tobacco
2) Not boycott Israel
3) Take their chances with the plague
Sometimes I think there just might be a god 🙂
Wuhan bat flu cured by BAT? Are we sure this wasn’t an April fool’s joke?
Damn! Andrew beat me to it!!
We could suspend tax payments by the likes of BAT in recognition of their public contribution, to be funded/offset by the abolition of not fit for purpose public bodies like PHE, which look like their incompetence could end up costing us eye watering sums of money
Didn’t Israel have a vaccine ready to go within two weeks.
Wouldn’t it be funny if you had to smoke it
Twenty Bensons are a cure for most things.
@Andrew M
BAT kills Bat flu, love it. MSM will ignore same as ignoring UK F1 Project Pitlane
@BraveFart
PHE’s mission statement: “Ban everything people want or enjoy. Health? Irrelevant, puritanism rules”
Data from China is that smoking seems to protect you from the virus:
http://www.qeios.com/read/article/554
But of course that doesn’t stop the English health establishment bleating about the dangers of smoking.
@RichardT
Wouldn’t surprise me, small amount of nicotine kills many small things and, like caffeine, too much kills humans too.