Covid vaccines create 9 new billionaires
ANI
20 May 2021, 19:27 GMT+10
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of Covid pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on Covid vaccines are making, the People's Vaccine Alliance said on Thursday ahead of a G20 leaders global health summit.
They are: Stephane Bancel, Moderna's CEO (worth 4.3 billion dollars), Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech (worth 4 billion dollars), Timothy Springer, an immunologist and founding investor of Moderna (worth 2.2 billion dollars), Noubar Afeyan, Moderna's Chairman (worth 1.9 billion dollars), Juan Lopez Belmonte, Chairman of ROVI, a company with a deal to manufacture and package the Moderna vaccine (worth 1.8 billion dollars), Robert Langer, a scientist and founding investor in Moderna (worth 1.6 billion dollars), Zhu Tao, co-founder and chief scientific officer at CanSino Biologics (worth 1.3 billion dollars), Qiu Dongxu, co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth 1.2 billion dollars) and Mao Huinhoa, also co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth 1 billion dollars).