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Action needed: When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna must not price-gouge [1]
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Date: 2023-01-28
Taxpayers funded the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020 through Operation Warp Speed and the CARES Act. And in the past two years, Moderna has already profited $18 billion from it.
In the beginning, Moderna almost exclusively sold the vaccine to rich countries, making it even more difficult to end the spread of the virus and end the pandemic.
To make matters worse, More Perfect Union reports that, “Moderna does not even have permission to use one of the key government-owned technologies behind the vaccine.”
There’s no better example of corporate greed than this. COVID-19 is here to stay, and that means the vaccines are, too. The companies tasked with protecting our health should be focused on long-term solutions to make vaccines more accessible, not less.
The COVID-19 vaccine does not belong to Moderna; it belongs to the global community that poured resources, funds, and time into fighting a pandemic that ended the lives of almost 7 million people.
Sign the petition to the Department of Health and Human Services: Stop Moderna’s price gouging of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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