1/ Amazing. 🤯😡🤯
Moderna has the gall to claim it's the sole inventor of the NIH-Moderna COVID vaccine.
nytimes.com/2021/11/09/us/…
This vaccine is the result of collaboration between @NIH scientists @jrmascola, @BarneyGrahamMD, @KizzyPhD & Moderna scientists.
2/ @NIH figured out the mRNA sequence encoding for the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein & sent it over to Moderna.
Moderna scientists simultaneously identified the same gene.
Moderna plugged in both sets of code into their computers to design an mRNA vaccine.
3/ Meanwhile, @NIH's @BarneyGrahamMD & @KizzyPhD *also* did the science to figure out how to stabilize coronavirus Spike protein.
The NIH owns patent '070 on that technology:
justhumanproductions.org/podcasts/s1e75…
Moderna is not paying NIH to license that technology.
4/ Moderna is cheating U.S. taxpayers.
Moderna is being scientifically dishonest.
Moderna is trying to cheat NIH scientists.
Moderna refuses to share its vaccine recipe & manufacturing know-how, even as its making BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in profits.
washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
5/ Meanwhile, many around the world still have not received a single dose of COVID vaccine.
Moderna is leaving people to die.
6/ Moderna cannot use the high cost of vaccine innovation as an excuse for demanding high profits.
Not when its vaccine was CO-INVENTED with @NIH.
Not when the U.S. government poured $1B into that research.
7/ This is the very definition of PROFITEERING.
Taking advantage of a CRISIS to make a profit.
Moderna is an IMMORAL company.
politico.com/news/magazine/… by @ProfMarkWilson
8/ SHAME SHAME SHAME on you
@Moderna
@sbancel
@NoubarAfeyan
@MIT's Robert Langer langerlab.mit.edu
@Harvard's @timothyspringer
washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
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