Moderna Chief Bancel Doesn't Currently Plan To "Invest" -- For New US Vaccines: Due To Tangerine 2.0 Anti-Science Stances. Ugh.

This is wildly unfortunate -- utterly avoidable; but understandable -- given that RFK, Jr. is. . . irrationally hostile to modern mRNA vaccines. He is killing the American life-sciences. . . dream.

What an upside-down world it is, of late. Bancel’s comments come days after Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., rebuked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., describing the lawyer’s stance on vaccines as “anti-science.” Here are the details, via CIDRAP, then:

. . .Moderna chief executive officer Stephane Bancel said the company does not plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from health officials in the United States.

His comments were made last week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market,” Bancel told Bloomberg TV. He said the vaccine market in the United States is much smaller as more anti-vaccine guidelines have become the norm. . . .

I agree, Mr. Bancel -- if RFK is going to rig the US market against new vaccines, there is not enough revenue available -- rest of world -- to make it worthwhile, as a business. [Yep. Trump and his minions are a pack of feckless, malign idiots.] Out.

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