It “perhaps was only a wild and loopy coincidence” drug firm Moderna introduced a plan to give free Covid vaccines to uninsured People proper as a Senate committee asked them to testify — nevertheless it was “a step in the suitable route,” Sen. Bernie Sanders stated Sunday.
“Wonderful coincidence, that occurred the identical precise day we introduced that we had been inviting them to testify,” Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions Committee, stated on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
The committee final week asked Moderna’s CEO, Stéphane Bancel, to seem in a panel subsequent month analyzing proposed plans to elevate the Covid vaccine’s record value to $110 to $130 per dose.