Does Anthony Fauci Have Ties to Moderna?

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Right-wing commentator Candace Owens is alleging connections between the Gates Foundation and Moderna, and Dr. Anthony Fauci and Moderna in a video posted on Instagram. 

In the video, Owens says she is a “lion” seeking to understand the mentality of the “sheep” who plan on taking a coronavirus vaccine when it is available. She asks: “What do you think about the ties that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has to this vaccine, has to Moderna? What do you think about the ties that Dr. Fauci has to Moderna?”

Moderna’s vaccine development has been supported by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is itself supported by the Gates Foundation, but the only apparent direct financial connection between Moderna and the Gates Foundation is a 2016 grant awarded to the company by the Gates Foundation to develop an HIV antibody therapeutic utilizing messenger RNA. The grant allowed for the possibility of Moderna receiving additional Gates funds up to $100 million for follow-on projects “to support the development of additional mRNA-based projects for various infectious diseases.” It’s unclear if Moderna’s vaccine, which is mRNA-based, received funding through the Gates grant. Neither Moderna or the Gates Foundation have responded to a request for comment. 

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    Not Jonah Goldberg

    Candace Owens captioning that video describing herself as a lion trying to understand the sheep might be the most eye rolling thing I’ve seen all election, and that’s really saying something.

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    Victor Clairmont

    I actually, 3 weeks ago did a socially distant dinner with an acquaintance and the wife of the host was convinced (Democrat leaning and no ties to Candace or Republican venues) that, after watching an online video of a “whistle blower”, in Big Pharma, she (and the vid) claimed that when a vaccine came out, that Dr Fauci would get massive amount of money because he would own stock (or shareholders or something) in the vaccine development.

    I said that, “I doubt even Fauci knows who will be the first business to make a vaccine, and what are the odds he has stocks in the exact company?”

    Thanks for proving me 100% right Alec!!!!!

    Keep the fact checks coming!

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      Not Jonah Goldberg

      All the vaccine conspiracies are frustrating because the right and left are buying into them.
      I have leftist friends who believe because Trump is the president and approving Warp Speed that all the vaccines are going to be unsafe and will cause mutations in kids because they haven’t been tested.
      My rightist friends believe that this is the microchipping they have been talking about for years.
      Great fun

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    Paul Montagu

    Good stuff.
    I know this is off-topic, but will the ace fact-checkers at The Dispatch take a stab at the Epoch Times video of vote counters in Fulton County, the one where observers and other personnel were allegedly told to leave?

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      Not Jonah Goldberg

      The Dispatch Podcast spoke to the head guy over the election there in Georgia. He explained that it looks bad due to confusion about some people leaving and some people staying. Currently, the investigators state that some people started packing up for the day and leaving and others just kinda followed along. Give it a listen since he explains a lot of it really well.

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        Paul Montagu

        Thanks! I'll have to break down and listen to a podcast for the first time ever.

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