There were other vaccine development efforts in Germany besides BioNTech too, most notably CureVac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CureVac#Reports_of_Trump_admin

There were other vaccine development efforts in Germany besides BioNTech too, most notably CureVac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CureVac#Reports_of_Trump_administration_overtures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CureVac#Reports_of_Trump_admin...), which made headlines early on in the pandemic because it was rumored that the Trump administration tried to get exclusive or prioritary rights to its vaccine for the US. Guess Trump is now glad he didn't go through with that, because the vaccine came very late and had disappointing efficacy numbers...