Moderna’s CEO didn’t say there were “100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine” available before the pandemic. Photo: La República staff/Screenshot on Twitter. | La República Template/Captured on Twitter. | La República Template/Captured on Twitter.
As the Ministry of Health (Minsa) further promotes immunization against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has resurfaced. For example, Facebook and Moderna are among the laboratories developing the bivalent vaccine discovered in Peru and promoted by the government in vaccination.
“Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel admits his company produced 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2019! Even before vaccine production began Pandemic! The video, which has received more than 4,000 likes and 10,000 views on social networks, has been described as “an unprecedented scandal”.This article has been circulating since August this year, but the content is about misleading information.
Misinformation about Stéphane Bancel’s claims about COVID-19 vaccines. Photo: Taken on Twitter.
Moderna CEO did not comment on COVID-19 vaccine
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the disease, already known as COVID-1, as a pandemic.9. According to the organization’s network platform. Previously, on December 31, 2019, the entity reported that it had been informed of the first outbreak of “viral pneumonia” in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and a few days later reported that, according to Chinese authorities, these outbreaks were caused by a novel coronavirus of.
Now, a Google image search has revealed that Bancel’s exhibition corresponds to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from January 16 to 20, 2023, EPA Images reports. This excerpt is taken from a meeting held on January 18, 2023.
The investigation did not uncover any news articles reporting on Stéphane Bancel’s alleged statements about COVID-19 vaccines at the event.. Instead, we find verifications that refute this version, such as those published by Reuters and the Associated Press (AP) on February 10, 2023, and February 8, 2023, respectively.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel during a session at the World Economic Forum meeting in January 2023. Photo: Web Capture/WEF.
From the WEF official document we can see the intervention of Stéphane Bancel in the 10th minute. According to media reports, the viral video shows a conversation between the “State of the Epidemic” team.
—Host: “I’m going to go with Stéphane. So let’s talk about vaccine development because we’ve heard about how COVID-19 works From 2022 The process is also remarkable in terms of speed. How is vaccine development, adoption and scale-up progressing when different variants and sub-variants are involved? Because this is one of the most concerning issues and because we’re all here discussing it right now, it’s important that we understand the context. ”
— Stephen: “Of course. Good morning, thank you for having me on the panel. So the big news we’re facing today compared to 2020 is We have manufacturing capabilities We are sure of this. When the epidemic occurred (March 2020), Moderna produced 100,000 doses throughout 2019. I remember after that, walking into my office at another facility and saying, “Are we going to make a billion doses next year?” They looked at me kind of weird and said, “What?” I said, ‘Yeah, We need to produce a billion doses of vaccine next year or there will be a pandemic. ‘”
CEO of Moderna No insistence that the amount of vaccine produced in 2019 was specifically for COVID-19.
Moderna spokesman Chris Ridley told Reuters, The doses mentioned by Stéphane Bancel refer to “the entire production of the company in 2019” and Say no to COVID-19 vaccines. He ruled out the possibility that the pharmaceutical company would have “100,000 doses” against SARS-CoV-2 by 2020.
In fact, it was not until January 2020 that the pharmaceutical company announced on its website a collaboration to develop an mRNA vaccine against the new coronavirus.
in conclusion
The video was taken out of context.executive Director modern He stopped short of insisting in his speech that the company produced “100,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine” before the pandemic. We therefore classify this publication as misleading.
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