A company has been created to develop vaccines for a range of viruses. $28,000,000 has been awarded to that company for this purpose.
Would it be reasonable to take a look and see how it is doing/where the money is going/whether it is well spent?
If your answer is no, then stop reading. The rest of this blog is meaningless to you.
If, however, the answer is yes, you might be interested in Andrew Kerr’s article at freebeacon.com. Here is how it begins:
During the final months of the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health awarded $28 million to a mysterious venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc., a biomedical firm founded in 2022 whose chief financial officer happens to be one of former president Joe Biden’s top COVID advisers.
To Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), the September 2024 grant from the NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health doesn’t pass the smell test. Vaccine Company has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds, which the Biden administration doled out to a seemingly random post office box in Bethesda, Maryland. Ernst urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a letter late Tuesday to investigate why the Biden administration awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to the mysterious firm and to consider clawing back any portion of the reward that remains unspent.
A Washington Free Beacon review of the taxpayer-funded company, which is supposed to use its $28 million HHS grant to develop vaccines to combat West Nile, dengue, and Zika viruses, indicates it has gone to great lengths to keep itself out of the public eye. The generically named firm has no website, and none of its top officers, including its chief financial officer, former Biden COVID adviser Sonya Bernstein, have disclosed their association to the company on their public résumés. Even the principal office of the taxpayer-funded business is a mystery, with Vaccine Company listing a different home base in each of its respective business registration filings in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
“From listing its mailing address as a P.O. box to being run by former Biden staffers, there are alarm bells going off as to how and why Vaccine Company, Inc. was awarded a lucrative government contract,” Ernst told the Free Beacon. “Unfortunately, there are more questions than answers, because everything this company does is shrouded in mystery. It should not be this hard to figure out where $28 million in tax dollars are going. The American people deserve to know.”
Hmmmmm. $28 million dollars to a company that seems determined to be as anonymous as possible, with no record of what it actually is doing, where it even operates (unless you think vaccines are developed in post office boxes) and whose principals don’t list the company on their public résumés.
And whose administration was the magnanimous benefactor funding this entity – for no benefit in return, I’m sure (as sure as I am that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east)? Why, Joe Biden’s administration. Mr. “10 percent to the big guy”.
I hope – fully expect – that HHS Secretary Kennedy looks into this early and heavily. Because it stinks like a pile of shrimp waste in the summer sun…
…just as I have absolutely no doubt this would not have been looked into at all if we were at the start of the Harris/Walz administration.
Chalk it up as another reason to be happy about the election results last November 5.
