I think that this might be a follow-on benefit of Operation Warp Speed which had a post a few days ago. From that post, it seems like one of the benefits to Mo

I think that this might be a follow-on benefit of Operation Warp Speed which had a post a few days ago. From that post, it seems like one of the benefits to Moderna (apart from a big cash infusion) was that Moderna had the science, but did not actually have the experience and pipelines of actually bringing a drug to a broad market. They did not have the experience and infrastructure for large scale human trials and for the large scale manufacturing. Experience with creating, testing, manufacturing, and rolling out the Covid vaccines, were I am sure invaluable in helping Moderna become a "full-stack" drug company. Very excited by this development and looking forward to (hopefully promising) results. It will be wonderful if we can make HIV/AIDS something future generations will only know from history books.