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November 5, 2021

Moderna Reports $3.3B Third-Quarter Profit; Protesters Demand It Share Vaccine Recipe
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Moderna said Thursday it will deliver 300 million fewer doses of its
highly effective COVID vaccine this year than initially projected. Even
so, Moderna on Thursday reported $3.3 billion in third-quarter profits.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, protesters rallied outside Moderna's
corporate headquarters Thursday, carting in wheelbarrows full of fake
money covered in blood, as they demanded Moderna share its vaccine
recipe with producers in the Global South. This is Dr. Joia Mukherjee,
professor of global health at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Joia Mukherjee: "We delivered this blood money to the steps of the
Moderna headquarters, and we've stood for five minutes in silence - one
minute per million people who have died, the large majority of them
without access to the vaccine. We must force Moderna to work with the
long list of manufacturers around the world, who are ready, who could
actually scale up this vaccine."



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