Thread by @celinegounder

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/…