Originally Posted by
Pooh
Why didn't the CEO of Moderna as well as the employees never get the jab they created? It's an honest question that deserves your answer. I heard it straight from his mouth in an interview. He claimed it was illegal for them to get the jab, which was pure bs and the interviewer called him out on it. His answer after that was just stuttering through around 30 seconds of pure crap. Opened my eyes quite a bit when the creator of the vaccine won't even take it. I wish I could cite the interview....it was on a podcast I listen to.
More lies as usual from people who don’t wanna do research. Took me 5 mins to find this.
Rigoberto Hernandez: Yeah, right. Did you get it? When did you get it?
Stéphane Bancel: Yeah.
Rigoberto Hernandez: Can you walk, can you take me through your, you getting it yourself?
Stéphane Bancel: Yeah. So I got vaccinated on January the third, it was a Sunday. We had decided, we brought after many discussions, that we needed to vaccinate the employees very quickly. Because in the fall, as the country was going full lot of infection, we're getting employees that were testing positive, not from the factory, where everybody was masked, a lot of cleaning and social distancing. But mostly, on the weekends, either family contamination or friends. That's typically, being reported by the CDC.
And so the big challenge was giving us, was that we, when somebody is down because he or she is sick, and has to be home in quarantine, first, because we have a quarantine app on everybody's phone, where we quarantine everybody that have been potentially contaminated to reduce the spread, as we should do. But then, think about it all the operators, we're taking out of the shop for. And those were the very men and women making the vaccines. And so I remember, one day, going to the [inaudible 00:34:30], as soon as the vaccines are for us, we need to vaccinate everybody in the company. Because we cannot take the risk that there are, there are thousand-plus people that have to make the vaccine for the planet makes less doses to help other people, because they are sick.
And so I got my vaccine on the, the campus of a factory. We basically, had a team of nurse from a local hospital, that we are contracting and, and paying, coming to, to vaccinate the team. I got my dose. It was an extraordinary feeling. You can imagine, working 10 years on the science and working non-stop for a year. And I never thought that I will get a Moderna product injected in my body. [laughing] And of course, given the pandemic, actually, I got the first Moderna product ever, authorized by the FDA injected in my body.
And it was, you know, cool for the first 48 hours to think about the science, what was happening in my body. Where my body was turning to a little factory and making, you know, for 48 hours the spike protein and my immune system seeing it and getting super upset with it and making an antibody, that would protect me, in case, I get it later.