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Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine and offered cash so it would be exclusive to the US
Thomas Colson and Andrew Dunn AT Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-tried-to-pay-germans-scientists-for-coronavirus-cure-2020-3
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Mar 15, 2020, 12:26 PM
An employee of the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac demonstrating research workflow on a vaccine for COVID-19 at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, on Thursday. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert
President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine so he could secure exclusive rights to it for the US.
The newspaper Welt am Sonntag reportedthat the Trump administration had offered large sums of cash to Germany-based biotech company CureVac to secure rights for the vaccine work, "but only for the USA."
The German government is battling back, offering financial incentives to the company to remain in Germany.Karl Lauterbach, a senior German politician and professor of epidemiology, said in response to the report: "
The exclusive sale of a possible vaccine to the USA must be prevented by all means. Capitalism has limits."
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Karadeniz
(22,564 posts)RockRaven
(14,990 posts)Goddammit I loathe everything about this asshole.
applegrove
(118,759 posts)brewens
(13,617 posts)brewens
(13,617 posts)were responsible for releasing the virus more credible?
IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)this story was all over the media, and here at DU, yesterday. the press must have known about it. this guy is a monster. I would've liked to see his denial of this.
Talitha
(6,611 posts)He'd have done it without a second thought, the soul-less SOB.
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)Does anybodty else think that, or am I the only one who hates tRump that much