Texas Company Claims to have Coronavirus Vaccine

Greffex Inc., a Texas-based genetic engineering company, claims to have a vaccine for the new coronavirus. According to CEO John Price, the company completed the vaccine this week. It will now move on to animal testing as required by the U.S. government.

“The trick in making a vaccine is: Can you scale the vaccine that you’ve made to be able to make a certain number of doses? Can you test that vaccine quickly and efficiently? And then can you get it into patients?” Price told Houston's KHOU 11. “And that’s where we have an edge as well on the other companies that are out there.”

Price added that Greffex will distribute the vaccine to other countries for free if the government approves the vaccine.

Fox Business reported that according to Price, “Greffex did not use a living or dead version of the actual virus that originated in Wuhan, China, to create the vaccine – a popular method used by some scientists to create an immunity to a virus, like the flu vaccine. Instead, Greffex uses adenovirus-based vector vaccines, meaning they are genetically engineered.”

The Business Journal reported that the vaccine was developed as the result of an $18.9 million contract that the National Institute of Health’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases gave to Greffex in September 2019 in an effort to fight infectious diseases.