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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

URSULA VON DER LEYEN: ¡ NOSOTROS VACUNAMOS UN CONTINENTE ! (13 DE SEPTIEMBRE 2023)

No mention finally of the fact that even if there was no public-health logic to “vaccinating an entire continent”, there was indeed a mercantile logic for at least one EU member state: namely, Germany. As recounted in my short history of the BioNTech-Pfizer partnership here, the German Government not only supported BioNTech from its inception, but sponsored its very founding. 

Ursula von der Leyen was herself a member of the German Government which sponsored the founding of BioNTech in 2008. She had also been a member of the German Government which, after her move to the European Commission in late 2019, would go on to pour another €375 million in subsidies into supporting BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. 

While the rest of the European economy suffered, in 2021-2022, the years of mass vaccinating the European continent (“and large parts of the world”), BioNTech would go from earning zero profits to earning €31 billion in profits on a nearly 80% profit margin, thus becoming the veritable motor of German economic growth. (For these figures, see here.) 

In perhaps not unrelated news, on September 1st, 10 days before the American FDA made a similar announcement, the European Commission announced that it was authorising BioNTech-Pfizer’s “[XBB.1.5-]adapted COVID-19 vaccine for Member States’ autumn vaccination campaigns”.

 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ov/speech_23_4426

 

 https://edv1694.substack.com/p/ursula-von-der-leyen-we-vaccinated

 


 

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