How Moderna Came Up With A Vaccine Against Vaccine Dissent

In a September call aimed at shoring up investors, Moderna's then-chief commercial officer, Arpa Garay, attributed some of the hesitancy pummeling Moderna's numbers to uninformed vaccine skeptics.

A series of internal company reports and communications reviewed by RealClearInvestigations show that Moderna has worked with former law enforcement and public health officials and a drug industry-funded non-governmental organization called The Public Good Projects to confront the "Root cause of vaccine hesitancy" by rapidly identifying and "Shutting down misinformation."

Part of this effort includes providing talking points to some 45,000 healthcare professionals "On how to respond when vaccine misinformation goes mainstream." PGP and Moderna have created a new partnership, called the "Infodemic Training Program," to prepare health care workers to respond to alleged vaccine-related misinformation.

The Moderna Reports consistently show the company raising red flags about those reporting documented side effects of the vaccine the biotech company was selling.

In a Moderna high-risk report, the company noted that speculation was swirling that "Allegations are part of a conspiracy to silence the comedian, who has been a vocal opponent of COVID-19 vaccines." The report linked an X video of Brand sharply criticizing Moderna and Pfizer for generating "$1,000 of profit every second" in 2021.

AP. The Moderna misinformation reporting system reveals that the pharmaceutical firm maintained an interest in pandemic-related issues that go beyond vaccine policy, overlapping with general issues surrounding the unexplained questions that still swirl around the source of the pandemic.

In October 2023, shortly after I spoke to him for an interview, Moderna flagged one of the Stanford professor's tweets that shared a link to a new Food and Drug Administration preprint study that documented "Elevated risk of seizures in toddlers and myocarditis in teenagers associated with covid mRNA vaccination." Moderna did not directly dispute the study findings other than to note that its authors wrote that it "Should be interpreted cautiously." 

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