>>18269416

“This manufacturing agreement with BARDA and the Department of Defense supports our vision of bringing a novel, first-of-its-kind human polyclonal antibody therapeutic candidate for COVID-19 to patients, and I am proud of the work by our team and appreciate the continued support from BARDA and JPEO as we continue to rapidly advance SAB-185.”

Perhaps they encountered cow hesitancy and decided to go human.

https://archive.ph/rh3yH

https://venturebeat.com/business/sab-biotherapeutics-awarded-57-5m-from-barda-and-u-s-department-of-defense-for-manufacturing-of-sab-185-for-the-treatment-of-covid-19/

>>18269835 (me)

Chased it down a little - this is really FUBAR. Searched spending.gov using "SAB Biotherapeutics" as search terms - showed SAB having recieved $10M from the USG. A grant to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska shows up. The short description is:

UNMC EPPLEY CANCER CENTER SUPPORT GRANT. This is grant number P30CA036727 and goes back all the way back to 1998 - has >$42 Millon Dollars in total cash and prizes listed in the TAGGS system for Univ. of Nebraska. (Not all that money is related to P30CA036727.)

https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=P30CA036727&arg_ProgOfficeCode=110].

The spending database short description doesn't say anything about SAB though. Cntrl F to find "SAB" in the spending.gov grant. Search says it's there even though it isn't showing up, so down the page to 'award' history (where experience has taught this anon) hovering over the lines will pop up a full description - picrel - which specifically says that UNMC is working with SAB Therapeutics.

This partial description from the pic - The basis of this approach is the unique TC Bovine technology in which the IGG antibodies produced by these animals are replaced with their human counterparts. Thus, the vaccination of these animals results in the large-scale production of antigen specific human polyclonal antibodies directed to that antigen.

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Once the human polyclonal ABS are generated, UNMC will conduct in vitro and in vivo efficacy studies and will see FDA approval to clinically evaluate the immunotherapeutic in humas at the UNMC biocontainment facility."

They've cloaked the CV research by saying it is relevant to the susceptibility of cancer patients. Even after a hour of trying to chase down the complete description which includes the language of the screen shot… still can not find the description of the grant which shows the collabortion between Univ. of Nebraska and SAB.

The BARDA contract article was dated Nov. 2020. And yet there has been no money spent? Suspicious as hell unless they're sending the money to universities so instead of SAB directly.

https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/%22SAB%20Biotherapeutics%22

https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=61a618aed1087a918c31094cdf32b390