That is because it is a completely unsubstantiated piece of news 'leaked' to appeal to European prejudices and thus increase CoreVac's negotiating power.
The idea that Donald Trump would be the person making an offer to the CEO of a tiny startup for a non-existent, as yet, vaccine should trigger alarm bells, as that's not how these negotiations work, at all.
If you want to understand how these things actually work, read this article:
Additionally, US government officials are on the record stating that any discoveries would be shared with the world. Plenty of governments are providing funding to labs all over the world, this is not unusual behavior.
> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world
Right, the german government confirmed that the US was trying to secure an interest in a german company, not that they were trying to get exclusive access. The reuters report even says as I quoted before:
> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world
I never said the US was trying to buy it for exclusive access, if that is the conspiracy theory you're alluding to. You need to bring it up with the one I replied to. They were making those claims, not me.
It's called a strawman's argument. You falsely claim something your opponent said and before you know it, everyone believes it.
>The conspiracy theory is that the German government conspired to spread a lie.
Are you on the wrong post? I never said they were spreading lies?
The only thing the German government did was confirm they and the US government were both in negotiations with CoreVac. They did NOT state that the US was looking for exclusive rights.
None of this goes against my initial post that this is a completely unsubstantiated article.
Edit: You can't cite the news as your source for the news, especially when the news itself says it is unconfirmed.
Any idea why was it removed? I saw many comments criticizing US being downvoted. It is not an baseless story now. There has been statements from German side.
The rate of rule breaking comments was high. The other threads may give an impression, if you show dead comments.
Some are spreading the conspiracy theory that either the broadcasters and news outlets conspired to produced incorrect but matching reports, or that the German government intentionally spreads the lie that the Trump administration tried to secure exclusive access to the vaccine. It seems to me that Trump supporters want to shield his administration from reports that make it look bad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22582721
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584108
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584227