I think “secret recipe” is grossly underestimating the complexity involved here. It’s not like they added a pinch of cumin or something. This was greenfield lab

I think “secret recipe” is grossly underestimating the complexity involved here. It’s not like they added a pinch of cumin or something. This was greenfield lab science in March 2020, the fact that they’re producing as many of them as they are right now is stunning. If this were an easy process to scale up, why wouldn’t Moderna be doing so and capturing the profit? What’s the argument that they should divert a (possibly quite large) amount of resources to helping others produce it instead of focusing on making as much as they can?