Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.
Germany’s Health Ministry confirmed a report in newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which said President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure the company CureVac to the United States, and the German government was making counter-offers to tempt it to stay.
“The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe,” the newspaper quoted a Health Ministry official as saying.
“In this regard, the government is in intensive exchange with the company CureVac.”
Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: “We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.”
Welt am Sonntag quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”
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The German Health Ministry confirmed a report that Trump “offered large sums of money” to the German pharmaceutical company CureVac to agree to sell rights to a possible coronavirus vaccine exclusively to America, “only for the US.” https://t.co/mwrFxRFtko
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) March 15, 2020
Somewhere out in Rube Nation, there's a guy who thinks this was a stroke of genius and is going to bitch that the only problem is that some European journo panty-waist blew the whistle. https://t.co/Ov5ElQTvJC
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 15, 2020
This is a flat-out denial, folks. It never happened. You got played by German media citing an anonymous source. Somebody wants to hurt US-German relations.
They did.https://t.co/umz12vvEnI
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 16, 2020
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