Moderna will not share the formula for its COVID-19 vaccine with other companies despite calls from international organizations for the company to do so.
Oct 13, 2021 -- Moderna will not share the formula for its COVID-19 vaccine with other companies despite calls from international organizations for the company to do so, Moderna chairman Noubar Afeyan said in an interview withModerna concluded it could increase global supply faster by expanding its own production instead of sharing its mRNA technology with manufacturers in other nations, Afeyan said.
Afeyan noted the company went from zero production to 1 billion doses in less than a year and said “we think we will be able to go from 1 to 3 billion” in 2022. Afeyan said Moderna, a Massachusetts-based company, is helping poor nations by working with the U.S. government and other governments to send more doses overseas.
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