Moderna Inc. will keep its COVID-19 vaccine available and free of charge for all people in the U.S. even after the public-health emergency ends.
Moderna Inc. will keep its COVID-19 vaccines available and free of charge for all people in the U.S. after the public-health emergency ends, the company said late Wednesday.
The announcement is something of a coup for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and had called on Moderna MRNA Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel to testify before Congress on a proposed price increase for the vaccine. Sanders was planning to grill Bancel to highlight what he called the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. The COVID vaccine was developed in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health using taxpayer money.
For uninsured or underinsured people, Moderna said it would provide the vaccine at no cost through its patient-assistance program. Cases are currently rising in 25 states, led by Montana, where they are up 55% from two weeks ago. On a per capita basis, Kentucky leads with 21 cases per 100,000 residents, the tracker shows.
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