An Australian scientist who has developed an alternative 'synthetic protein' vaccine against Covid-19 has been forced to go hand-in-cap to try and fund its approval in Australia.
Professor Nikolai Petrovaky has already raised more than $70,000 since listing his vaccine on GoFundMe last week.
The Adelaide vaccine scientist, from Australian biotechnology company Vaxine, claims Covax-19 is the first synthetic protein vaccine against Covid-19 to receive market authorisation, after showing strong protection against the Delta virus variant in a Phase 3 clinical trial in 16,876 subjects in the Middle East.
Professor Nikolai Petrovaky has developed an alternative Covid-19 vaccine that is being blanked out of existence by the Commonwealth Government
A GoFundMe page has already taken in more than $70,000 to help get Covax-19 TGA approval
Australians have expressed a keen interest in alternative Covid-19 vaccines. At present they have access to Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca
Professor Petrovaky has been scathing of the Health Department's failure to back the product for use in Australia while handing over billions to its competitor CSL to produce the UK-developed AstraZeneca vaccine.
'Not only have the government failed to support our efforts, but if Australians are to have any chance to access our Covax-19 vaccine then the government requires that we first pay their agency, the Therapeutic Goods Administration or TGA, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to them and regulatory consultants, just to assess our application to get our vaccine locally approved,' the GoFundMe page states.
The professor hopes to raise at least $365,000 to go towards the expected half a million dollars or more to make the vaccine available to Australians.
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A frustrated Professor Petrovaky claims the Australian Government has refused to help make the vaccine available apart from a small grant he labelled 'hush money'.
Further, he accused Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt of attempting to wipe its very existence from history.
'If you go back through the thousands of interviews Greg Hunt has given over the last 18 months of this pandemic, you will not find one mention of our vaccine - the only successful vaccine developed here in
