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		bagacrap on Dec 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attac... Pfizer didn't take public money for development of this vaccine --- Moderna did. And by public, I mean from the US taxpayer. No American company got funding from the Russian government.

godelski on Dec 10, 2020 [–]

FYI, they did take German money[0]. But there's still the question of what does "public" mean here.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/pfizer-va...

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