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posted by martyb on Sunday March 15 2020, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-a-stab-at-it dept.

German company CureVac has received a rather strange offer from the current White House.

On March 3, CureVac's CEO was invited to the White House, for a meeting with President Trump, Vice Pence and several members of the Coronavirus Task Force. Asked for when a vaccine could be ready, he estimated that a potential candidate could be ready within a few months. Apparently, that triggered the members of the meeting so much, that they've now offered to buy the company, at whatever price.

One condition though: production would be exclusively for the United States.

The move is not exactly one to gain popularity, and follows on the heels of the President's worrying statement that "a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe".


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @02:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @02:00AM (#971752)

    or that at some level it realizes it has really fd things up so far and is desperate to secure a "win"...

    on one hand, yes securing a vaccine before November may buy it a few votes...

    can't ever accept responsibility for bad, but full on credit for "winning".