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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on March 27, 2020, 04:59:49 PM

Title: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: rcjordan on March 27, 2020, 04:59:49 PM

Fauci Outlines Ambitious Plan to Scale Up Covid-19 Vaccine
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/fauci-outlines-ambitious-plan-to-scale-up-covid-19-vaccine

Title: Re: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: rcjordan on April 17, 2020, 02:31:35 PM

^{Raises the pot..}

Moderna soars on $483 million in funding for coronavirus vaccine
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/17/moderna-soars-on-483-million-in-funding-for-coronavirus-vaccine.html

Title: Re: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: ergophobe on April 17, 2020, 08:07:41 PM

Great idea.

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When asking companies to take on that risk, “You’ve got to give some back up to them,” he added. “And we’ve done that. We’ve put hundreds of millions of dollars into companies that try and make vaccines. I wouldn’t hesitate to do that for a moment now.”

If only he had a different boss.

Title: Re: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: rcjordan on July 16, 2020, 07:17:00 PM

^{...Moderna doubles down}
Why Is Moderna Already Making Coronavirus Vaccine Doses? | The Motley Fool
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/07/16/why-is-moderna-already-making-coronavirus-vaccine.aspx

Cynical Debbie says this is to beat Oxford's vaccine to the starting gate.

Title: Re: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: Travoli on July 16, 2020, 08:04:36 PM

Cynical Debbie can add lots of insider selling by MRNA execs.

https://www.thestreet.com/boardroomalpha/news/moderna-insiders-sell-stock

"Positive news surrounding Monderna's (MRNA) -Get Report Phase 1 COVID-19 vaccine study has sent the stock soaring once again this week. Shares are now up >300% YTD and nearly 25% in the last 10 days. Coupled with the rise this year has been heavy selling by certain insiders (over $12M in sales in July alone), which has also caught the eye of financial media."

Transaction list:

https://tracker.boardroomalpha.com/insider/ticker/MRNA/Year%20to%20date

Title: Re: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: ergophobe on July 16, 2020, 09:06:05 PM

Pfizer is also already moving to production of their vaccine candidate (in partnership with BioNTech). They've spent 1 billion dollars so far total

Title: Re: Fauci places a long bet
Post by: rcjordan on February 15, 2021, 06:52:27 PM

Dr. Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for ‘defending science’
https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2021/02/dr-fauci-wins-1-million-israeli-prize-for-defending-science.html