You know there are already full freezers around the country? Henry Ford in Detroit has a set of them.
That’s not the point.
Sitting on patents and agreements is the perogative of the parties involved and relates to how the parties benefit once the drug goes to market. It is separate to the coverage of R&D.
Primate trials only started in July. That was the beginning of the process to confirm the safety of the product for human USE, for THIS form of SARS COVID.
That is also around the time Moderna got an agreement on its supply funding. Not the money for research, but an agreement to fund its supply, contingent on the drug passing efficacy and safety tests, then FDA approval.
Funds are released on milestone payment basis.
The actual funding of the research originates from a program set up in 2006 so Trump has benefited from something that predated his election by a decade.
https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/27/moderna-covid19-vaccine-government-funding/
Check the timeline.
https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-against-covid-19
Even so, this isn’t anything I’m criticising Trump for other than he did spend months telling the country that COVID is a virus from China that’s not serious and may as well be a hoax... While bashing the industry that has been working for YEARS to develop mRNA treatments for SARS viruses.
Pfizer and Moderna are going to boycott a White House summit on distribution, they are not happy. I understand that if it does go ahead it’ll be junior execs and the likes of FedEx and Ups who’ll be standing by Trump as he tries to claim the credit for the Pfizer effort despite having feuded openly with them AND downplaying the urgency of the development.
Like I said - Trump has a habit of picking fights with people that should be on his side and who are working to benefit the USA.... and then he gets upset when they think he’s a colossal dick.
You think that’s bad, imagine what could happen if he persists in trying to delegitimize all the postal votes of military vets and those serving overseas, and tarring all postal voters with the fraud charge.