RFK Jr.'s Claim About NIH's Stake in Moderna's Vaccine
Showing 10 Moderna videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine surfaces in this material mainly through a specific claim made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Stossel interview: that the National Institutes of Health co-owns roughly half of the vaccine's underlying patent and stands to collect tens of billions of dollars in royalties, with six NIH officials close to Anthony Fauci personally holding rights to that revenue. Kennedy cited the claim as part of his broader argument that federal health agencies have financial incentives that compromise their independence, one of several positions, including his skepticism of vaccine safety generally, that host John Stossel pushed back on directly in the same conversation. The rest of the material grouped under this topic doesn't discuss Moderna specifically, instead covering the broader political story around Kennedy's endorsement of Donald Trump and subsequent confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary, as well as Anthony Fauci's own congressional testimony about pandemic-era decision-making, both adjacent subjects rather than direct Moderna coverage.