COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle

Moderna Gets to Bypass Its Long-Standing Issues with R & D. Moderna produced the first batch of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate on February 7, one month after Bancel and Graham's initial conversation.

Since Moderna's stock had begun to surge in February, media reports noted that "Nearly every progress update-or media appearance by Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel-has been gobbled up by investors, who seem to have an insatiable appetite for the stock." Bancel's tried-and-tested method of keeping Moderna afloat on pure hype, though it was faltering before COVID-19, was again paying off for the company thanks to the global crisis and related panic.

While July 2020 brought a surge in valuation and positive press for Moderna and its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, it also brought an unfavorable ruling for Moderna in its long-running dispute with Arbutus, one that opened the door for Arbutus to file an injunction against Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, if they chose, to force the negotiation of a license with Moderna.

Despite the clear evidence that Moderna failed to disclose the considerable amount of US government funding prior to and during the COVID crisis in its patent applications, Moderna responded to KEI and the BARDA/DARPA "Scrutiny" by stating that it was "Aware of and consults with our agency collaborators regarding our contractual obligations under each of these agreements, including those with respect to IP , and believe we comply with those obligations." As of the writing of this article, BARDA and DARPA have taken no action against Moderna for their illegal omission about having received substantial government funding in their patent applications and filings.

How can the claims made by such a company be trusted at face value without independent verification? Furthermore, how can NIH studies of Moderna be trusted when Moderna has claimed that some of the studies that were ultimately factors in the vaccine's emergency use authorization approval by the FDA utilized a different product than that which Moderna later successfully commercialized?

As Part III of this series will explore, the EUA for the Moderna vaccine got around the issues raised in this article by treating the entire Moderna formulation as a traditional vaccine, which it is not, as traditional vaccines do not utilize mRNA for inducing immunity, and their safety and efficacy depend on several criteria that are entirely different from those of the more novel mRNA. Thus, the LNP issue, a perpetually sticky one for Moderna that it struggled to circumvent before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, was largely evaded when it came down to, not just research and development, but receiving EUA. It appears that this sleight-of-hand by federal regulators was necessary for Moderna, after ten years, to finally get its first product on the market.

The push for Moderna booster-dose approval has advanced despite real-world data not supporting Moderna's past claims of safety and efficacy for its COVID-19 vaccine, the recent decision of several European governments to halt the vaccine's use, and the FDA's own infighting and recent admissions that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is one of the more dangerous currently in use, particularly in terms of adverse effects on the cardiovascular system.

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