German biotech company snubs Trump's offer to grant US exclusive right to coronavirus vaccine

[ck4829]

A biopharmaceutical based in Germany reportedly rejected a proposal by the US to purchase the exclusive rights to a coronavirus vaccine, according to the German news organization Mannheimer Morgen.

CureVac AG, a vaccine and therapeutics developer headquartered in Tübingen, Germany, was approached by the Trump administration to bring the company to the US, in exchange for funding, according to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

A German official reportedly claimed that Trump was trying to obtain the scientist's research exclusively, and that the administration wanted to get a potential vaccine "only for the United States."

CureVac investor Christof Hettich told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper that the company wanted to develop the highly-anticipated vaccine for the whole world, and not just for single countries, according to several German news reports. "The exclusive sale of a possible vaccine to the USA must be prevented by all means," Karl Lauterbach, an economics and epidemiology professor and a German Social Democrats lawmaker said on Twitter. "Capitalism has limits."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biotech-company-fighting-coronavirus-shoots-211300764.html

[tishaLA]

1. Only an amoral cretin could even think of asking for something like that

"Eff the rest of the world! Give it to us!"

[smirkymonkey]

2. Good for them!

I can't believe Trump is trying to capitalize off this tragedy. Actually, I can. There is no low this disgusting pig of a man won't sink to. How dare he try to pull a stunt like this during such a crisis! I hate him with the fire of a thousand suns. I can't even say what I wish for his fate to be right now.

[sheshe2]

3. They gave trumpie....

THIS!

[Pachamama]

4. "Fick dich du Arschloch"

That's probably the nicest thing they are saying to Trump.....

[Ohiogal]

5. I hope Angela Merkel

told Herr Dumpster go fuck himself. With a cactus.

[brewens]

6. He was also finally buying Greenland to set up the vaccination manufacturing facility

and supply the whole world for free. Or something like that. Just trying to predict what they might come up with to splain this one.

[Grasswire2]

7. WHOSE MONEY was he planning to use for the bribe???

And if it was OURS, how many other times has he circumvented the Congress' power of the purse to issue bribes and payoffs, and for what?

[Flaleftist]

9. He probably has access to funds that he doesn't need the House to approve.

Maybe black budget money from the IC now that he has a sycophant in charge. Or money that declaring a national emergency allows him to spend more easily.

[Whiskeytide]

8. There is SO MUCH wrong with this ...

... What an asshole. It sounds just like something he would do. WASF.