You may have heard that Moderna is no longer going to be funding vaccine trials:
Moderna chief executive officer Stephane Bancel said the company does not plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from health officials in the United States.
His comments were made last week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market,” Bancel told Bloomberg TV. He said the vaccine market in the United States is much smaller as more anti-vaccine guidelines have become the norm.
Since last May, the Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership has greatly reduced general recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, and most recently cut the number of recommended childhood immunizations from 17 to 11. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, also in attendance in Davos, remarked Kennedy’s policies are “almost like a religion” and “anti-science.”
Economic analysts said Bancel’s comments mean Moderna’s phase 3 clinical trials for vaccines will likely be on the chopping block. Moderna has already been facing declines in sales after a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a tragedy:
The COVID vaccines saved millions of lives but because we have a stupid, superstitious, conspiracy-addled faction in America that’s pulling the strings, we’re going to deny the world anything like that in the future. We’re just determined to kill the human species one way or another.