Coronavirus Vaccines Have Spawned 9 New Billionaires: Campaign Group Coronavirus Vaccines Have Spawned 9 New Billionaires: Campaign Group Topping the list of new vaccine billionaires were the CEO of Moderna Stephane Bancel, and his BioNTech counterpart Ugur Sahin.
Eight existing billionaires have seen their combined wealth increase by $32.2 billion.
Paris, France:
Profits from Covid-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group said Thursday, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations monopoly control on vaccine technology. Between them, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion (15.8 billion euros), enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries 1.3 times, The People s Vaccine Alliance said in a statement.