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Moderna builds massive factories in UK, Australia and Canada
Sun Yang, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/...
Closed-door meeting
Infections, Tuesday, 37 million
205 million so far (18% of the population)
Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, 50% infected so far
Thursday, cases, + 4,000
Saturday, cases + 4,103
Deaths, + 8
(no attempt to collate cases)
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
(University of Washington, Seattle)
https://covid19.healthdata.org/china?...
Deaths by April 1st = 293,127
Population 1,412,600,000
Infection fatality rate = 0.000207
From China
Lots of people have colds
Chengdu
Monday the 5th of December 2022, local government loosened all covid restrictions
By the 12th, almost everyone I know has covid
Severe stigma associated with the virus
About 80% have symptoms
20% asymptomatic
Symptoms
Headache (with brain fog)
Lack of energy/fatigue
Muscle pain
Body pains
(Seem universal)
Also
Dry throat
Slight cough
Runny nose (usually light)
Nausea
Insomnia
Diarrhoea
Increased appetite in some
Very little testing going on
Few government testing centres
Many determined to know, long queues
People still think the virus is very dangerous
Getting negative results (despite being symptomatic)
Avoid panic
Avoid shutdowns
Promote natural immunity
Moderna Chief Executive Stephane Bancel
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/22/moder...
That capacity that we’re building in the UK, that they are committed to buying the product for the next ten years
NOTES TO EDITORS:
the details of the strategic partnership between the government and Moderna are commercially sensitive
UK, Prime Minister, Moderna (2020)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...
Mr. Sunak refused to disclose whether he will profit from a surge in the share price of Moderna
Theleme has a $500m investment in US-based Moderna
Mr. Sunak was a founding partner of Theleme Partners
and one of the executives managing its US office.
He left the firm in 2013
Theleme is registered in the Cayman Islands
(which does not make company records public)
Moderna goes global
https://globalnews.ca/news/9258211/gr...
Canada
New factory in Montreal area, Laval, Que
Mr. Trudeau took part in a groundbreaking ceremony
Completed in 2024 or 2025
mRNA vaccines, 100 million doses per year
Covid, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne
Canada committed to purchase a certain number of vaccines
Part of a seven-year agreement
200+ workforce
No to leave out Australia
https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/...
Monash Technology Precinct, Victoria
COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
100 million doses per year
mRNA vaccines
Monash Vice-Chancellor, Professor Margaret Gardner
bring together all of the elements of an mRNA innovation ecosystem
that will deliver long-term health and economi
