The Messenger - The Story Behind Moderna’s Covid Vaccine

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Peter Loftus, the author says, Moderna was an obscure company, but due to government patronage, today Moderna’s stock market capitalization was $66.9 billion.

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Peter Loftus too has become a millionaire with the publication of this book. Along with Moderna, the book as well as the author have become a household name around the world.

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Moderna CEO Stephane Bandel described it as taking a photocopy of an invaluable recipe book into the kitchen to do the job. Moderna considered itself a digital venture, an information medicine-based platform company, not a pharma company.

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In late 2019, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci was working with Moderna on a “stopwatch drill” for the Nipah virus: NIAID would help Moderna design the vaccine, Moderna would make it & NIAID would do a clinical trial.

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In late 2019, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci was working with Moderna on a “stopwatch drill” for the Nipah virus: NIAID would help Moderna design the vaccine, Moderna would make it & NIAID would do a clinical trial.

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This drill had been underway when Moderna CEO Stephane Bandel, vacationing in France, had the insight that this mysterious virus from Wuhan could become a far bigger outbreak.

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The Covid vaccine was Moderna’s first commercially available product, and within a span of a year, mRNA had been injected into hundreds of millions of arms around the world.

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Under Operation Warp Speed, Moderna got billions of taxpayer dollars to help the company scale up its manufacturing network, and race through its three phases of clinical trials.

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Merely 280 days after the genetic sequencing for Covid was posted online, drug trials were over, and a vaccine was only a couple of months away. In nine months, Moderna & NIAID achieved what usually takes ten to fifteen years.

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The Messenger - The Story Behind Moderna’s Covid Vaccine

Peter Loftus, the author says, Moderna was an obscure company, but due to government patronage, today Moderna’s stock market capitalization was $66.9 billion.

Peter Loftus too has become a millionaire with the publication of this book. Along with Moderna, the book as well as the author have become a household name around the world.

Moderna CEO Stephane Bandel described it as taking a photocopy of an invaluable recipe book into the kitchen to do the job. Moderna considered itself a digital venture, an information medicine-based platform company, not a pharma company.

In late 2019, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci was working with Moderna on a “stopwatch drill” for the Nipah virus: NIAID would help Moderna design the vaccine, Moderna would make it & NIAID would do a clinical trial.

In late 2019, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci was working with Moderna on a “stopwatch drill” for the Nipah virus: NIAID would help Moderna design the vaccine, Moderna would make it & NIAID would do a clinical trial.

This drill had been underway when Moderna CEO Stephane Bandel, vacationing in France, had the insight that this mysterious virus from Wuhan could become a far bigger outbreak.

The Covid vaccine was Moderna’s first commercially available product, and within a span of a year, mRNA had been injected into hundreds of millions of arms around the world.

Under Operation Warp Speed, Moderna got billions of taxpayer dollars to help the company scale up its manufacturing network, and race through its three phases of clinical trials.

Merely 280 days after the genetic sequencing for Covid was posted online, drug trials were over, and a vaccine was only a couple of months away. In nine months, Moderna & NIAID achieved what usually takes ten to fifteen years.

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