“At the World Economic Forum, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel admitted that his company produced 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 2019, before the pandemic started.”
Social media posts
Instagram posts. Claim dated 12 Feb 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel was not referring to COVID-19 vaccine doses when he said the company produced 100,000 doses in 2019. Moderna collaborated with NIH in January 2020 to develop a vaccine against COVID-19.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 12 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 February 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/reel/Cokn4EPMt1w/
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