Moderna won't share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because execs have concluded that scaling up the company’s own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company’s chairman said.
ROME — Moderna MRNA, +1.98% has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company’s own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company’s chairman said Monday.
“We didn’t have to do that,” Afeyan said. ”We think that was the responsible thing to do.” He added: “We want that to be helping the world.” “Within the next six to nine months, the most reliable way to make high-quality vaccines and in an efficient way is going to be if we make them,” Afeyan said. Asked about appeals from the World Health Organization and others, he contended that such pleas assumed ”that we couldn’t get enough capacity, but in fact we know we can.”
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