https:\/\/www.icandecide.org\/ican_press\/ican-receives-emails-from-niaid-official-who-stands-to-profit-from-covid-19-vaccines\/<\/a><\/p>\nICAN previously reported that some government officials stand to earn millions from the sale of mRNA-1273, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), and Moderna.<\/p>\n
Given the clear conflict between these officials\u2019 personal interest in making money and their duty to ensure vaccines are safe, ICAN, through its attorneys, submitted a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIAID\u2019s parent agency.\u00a0 One of those requests was for the Deputy Director of NIAID\u2019s Vaccine Research Center, Barney Graham\u2019s, emails regarding COVID-19.\u00a0 When NIH failed to respond to those requests, ICAN sued the agency in federal court.\u00a0 In response to that lawsuit, NIH agreed to produce responsive documents on a rolling basis.<\/p>\n
ICAN recently received three productions of Barney Graham\u2019s emails.\u00a0 NIH redacted many of these documents including exchanges involved Barney Graham and Kizzmekia Corbett, both of whom are NIH officials that stand to earn millions from the Moderna vaccine.\u00a0 The excuse?\u00a0 NIH claims they \u201ccontain staff advice, opinion, and recommendations\u2026\u201d\u00a0 and that other redacted documents contain \u201ctrade secrets and commercial or financial information that is privileged and confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n
When taxpayer money is being used to develop this vaccine, nothing should be a secret from the public.\u00a0 Certainly not communications between public officials that stand to personally earn millions of dollars from the sale of this vaccine and are using taxpayer money to develop the vaccine!<\/p>\n
ICAN does not believe the same government officials who stand to profit from the vaccine should be able to hide their \u201cadvice, opinion and recommendations\u201d regarding same or to argue that their emails are \u201cconfidential.\u201d\u00a0 We will challenge the agency\u2019s inappropriate redactions to make sure that these government officials are transparent even if it hurts their pocketbooks.<\/span>
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