# COVID-19 Vaccine Profits and Public Funding: A Debate

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120078509456400491
- Source account: [@realrikkidoolan](https://x.com/realrikkidoolan)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:29
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate) I've brought some facts. The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=4) Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer made $1,000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine. Wow.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=10) More than two-thirds of Congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=16) Pfizer Chairman Albert Bourla told Time Magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing a COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money, and of course, Pfizer made $100 billion- Right. Okay. All right ... in profit in 2022. All right.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=27) Fr- I, and, and may I just mention, finally, and these are... This is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=34) The German public funded the BioNTech, uh, vaccine.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=37) When it came to the profits, they took the profits.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=40) When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=43) It's difficult not to- Okay. But I, I will just add one thing.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=46) It is possible that these are- ... greedy capitalists- Well, Bill ... made a lot of money.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=51) All I'm querying is this. Yes. Is if you have- All right ... an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies Yes. Is if you have- All right ... an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies,

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=59) where a military- Okay ... industrial complex benefits from war, where, and energy companies benefit from energy crises, you are going to generate- These, yeah, right ... states of perpetual crisis- Yes ... where the interests of ordinary people- And, and, well, yes. Uh ... separate from the interests of the elites.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=74) And cottage industries. And, and Bill- Once you create an industry like, like checking you...

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=79) I still get checked to see if I have COVID, because it's a cottage industry.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lHKahmaVM9aO/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-public-funding-a-debate?t=83) People started making money by sending a nurse to my house, and now no one wants to give up that gravy train