The NIAID is a division of NIH. How much stock does Fauci have in Moderna? Notice where they intend to do Phase 2 testing . . . China!
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/amid-deadly-outbreak-nih-hasn-t-found-its-pharma-partner-to-manufacture-coronavirus-vaccines
“Moderna and the National Institutes of Health quickly struck up work on a potential vaccine against the deadly new coronavirus. But the team hasn’t found a pharma partner to manufacture the vaccine for real-world use, a top official said Tuesday.”
“NIH and Moderna could develop a vaccine in a little over a year if all goes well, but they wouldn’t be able to produce the doses needed to deploy the shot against the outbreak, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci said at an Aspen Institute panel. That’d require a pharma partner, and so far, NIH hasn’t found its manufacturer.”
“On the NIH/Moderna collaboration, Fauci said the team should be able to get into the clinic in about two and a half months from the time it received the initial virus sequence. Then, he expects three months of testing in phase 1. If all goes well, the team could advance to phase 2 testing in China that’d take six to eight months.”
“After that, the group would be ready to start producing vaccines for use in the field. Production would require an amount of time that’s as ‘problematic’ as developing the shot itself, Fauci said. That’s unless the team produces vaccines ‘at-risk,’ or before getting proof the vaccine will even work.”