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State of the Pandemic Davos 2023 – World Economic Forum

At the 2023 WEF meeting in Davos, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel indicates that in 2019, he had advance knowledge of a pandemic:

Sasha Vakulina, panel host: “How is the development, adoption and scaling of vaccine going on when it comes to different variants and subvariants? Because this is one of the big concerns, as we’re all here now and we’re discussing and we understand the context and this is a great deal.”

Bancel: “Sure. Good morning and thank you for having me on the panel. So the great news versus 2020 where we are today is we have manufacturing capacity.

“When the pandemic happened, Moderna made 100,000 doses in 2019 for the whole year. And I remember walking after hours into the office of Moderna manufacturing and I say, ‘How (can) we make a billion doses next year?’ And they look at me a bit funny, say, ‘What?’ I say, ‘Yeah, we need to make a billion doses next year, there’s going to be a pandemic.

“And so where we are now is we have plants in the US and in Switzerland. We’ve shown this summer that we’re able to adapt to variants very quickly.”

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Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel: Moderna is a platform company – FOX Business

  • Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel says Moderna is a platform company.
  • mRNA is like software.
  • Flu vaccines have 60% efficacy in a good year and 20%-30% efficacy in a good year.
  • Moderna’s goal is to combine the Covid boost with the flu vaccine into one single dose.
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Meet The 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting Covid-19 – Forbes

Shortly after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, markets collapsed and economies around the world plunged into recession. At the same time, hundreds of billionaires fell from the ranks of Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, capturing a snapshot of the pandemic’s impact on the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest people.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/