Moderna goes global

Sun Yang, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-estimates-250-million-people-caught-covid-19-since-end-of-zero-covid-policy-report/ar-AA15D8xp

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/china-s-covid-surge-sees-37-million-new-cases-in-single-day-as-hospitals-struggle/ar-AA15BPtg

Closed-door meeting

Infections, Tuesday, 37 million

205 million so far (18% of the population)

Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, 50% infected so far

Thursday, cases, + 4,000

Saturday, cases + 4,103

Deaths, + 8

(no attempt to collate cases)

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

(University of Washington, Seattle)

https://covid19.healthdata.org/china?view=cumulative-deaths&tab=trend

Deaths by April 1st = 293,127

Population 1,412,600,000

Infection fatality rate = 0.000207

From China

Lots of people have colds

Chengdu

Monday the 5th of December 2022, local government loosened all covid restrictions

By the 12th, almost everyone I know has covid

Severe stigma associated with the virus

About 80% have symptoms

20% asymptomatic

Symptoms

Headache (with brain fog)

Lack of energy/fatigue

Muscle pain

Body pains

(Seem universal)

Also

Dry throat

Slight cough

Runny nose (usually light)

Nausea

Insomnia

Diarrhea

Increased appetite in some

Very little testing going on
Few government testing centres

Many determined to know, long queues

People still think the virus is very dangerous

Getting negative results (despite being symptomatic)

Avoid panic

Avoid shutdowns

Promote natural immunity

Moderna Chief Executive Stephane Bancel

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/22/moderna-to-build-new-vaccine-facility-in-britain.html

That capacity that we’re building in the UK, that they are committed to buying the product for the next ten years

NOTES TO EDITORS:

the details of the strategic partnership between the government and Moderna are commercially sensitive

UK, Prime Minister, Moderna (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/17/rishi-sunak-refuses-to-say-if-he-will-profit-from-moderna-covid-vaccine

Mr. Sunak refused to disclose whether he will profit from a surge in the share price of Moderna

Theleme has a $500m investment in US-based Moderna

Mr. Sunak was a founding partner of Theleme Partners

and one of the executives managing its US office.

He left the firm in 2013

Theleme is registered in the Cayman Islands

(which does not make company records public)

Moderna goes global

https://globalnews.ca/news/9258211/groundbreaking-moderna-mrna-vaccine-factory-montreal/

Canada

New factory in Montreal area, Laval, Que

Mr. Trudeau took part in a groundbreaking ceremony

Completed in 2024 or 2025

mRNA vaccines, 100 million doses per year

Covid, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne

Canada committed to purchase a certain number of vaccines

Part of a seven-year agreement

200+ workforce

No to leave out Australia

https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/moderna-to-build-manufacturing-facility-at-monash

Monash Technology Precinct, Victoria

COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

100 million doses per year

mRNA vaccines

Monash Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret Gardner

bring together all of the elements of an mRNA innovation ecosystem

that will deliver long-term health and economic benefits for the community