The Story Of Operation Warp Speed Gets Worse

Quite understandably given the billions Moderna made from Warp Speed, Arbutus and parent company Genevant are suing for infringement. Which is where it gets weird, or actually not very weird. If government was going to lean on pharmaceutical firms to rush a vaccine, indemnity from liability had to come next. And so it is for Moderna via-a-vis Arbutus. The Department of Justice agreed last year to take on Moderna’s liability for patent infringement which, given the billions Moderna earned via federal largesse, could easily add up to billions.

The federal government should never have funded Operation Warp Speed, the 2020 central plan quarterbacked by the Trump administration to rush a coronavirus vaccine to the people.

Operation Warp Speed institutionalized central planning backed by billions of taxpayer dollars as the lead response to that which is said to threaten us.

Central planning always and everywhere fails during times of tranquility, yet we're expected to believe that it works during times of uncertainty? To believe the obnoxious conceit that informed Operation Warp Speed is to believe that the federal government should always plan the drugs and vaccines of tomorrow.

Have those who cheered Warp Speed considered the disfiguring impact on Moderna and others like it for being the recipient of such a massive corporate payday care of the American taxpayer? To say that the dangling of billions won't distort Moderna's future actions, and those of its competitors amounts to willful blindness.

That's important simply because the Arbutus technology helped make the Covid vaccine possible, and with it Moderna's massive payday.

Quite understandably given the billions Moderna made from Warp Speed, Arbutus and parent company Genevant are suing for infringement.

The Department of Justice agreed last year to take on Moderna's liability for patent infringement which, given the billions Moderna earned via federal largesse, could easily add up to billions. 

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