A social media post with more than 31,000 engagements features a video of a political commentator falsely claiming that the NIH has joint ownership of the Moderna vaccine and helped orchestrate the pandemic for profit. The allegation is based on a 2019 agreement between Moderna and NIH to develop a vaccine for MERS, a coronavirus that is related to SARS-CoV-2. No U.S. government agency has ownership of any of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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