The COVID-19 pandemic exposed an uncomfortable truth: when American taxpayers fund the science behind life-saving medicines, private companies still get to decide who can afford them. When Moderna developed its groundbreaking mRNA COVID vaccine, it did so on the back of decades of government-funded research and over $1 billion in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”). Taxpayers funded the science. But when … Continue reading You Paid for That Vaccine. So Why Can’t the World Afford It?