Fauci places a long bet

[rcjordan]

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

[rcjordan]

^{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

[ergophobe]

Great idea.

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.

[rcjordan]

^{...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.

[Travoli]

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

[ergophobe]

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

[rcjordan]

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