[nocturnial]

I think you have the wrong article. The one I was talking about was from reuters and was officially confirmed by the german government.

[theferalrobot]

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

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...

[nocturnial]

Fair enough, so why was that particular article flagged on HN?

[theferalrobot]

I imagine because 1) discussion was propagating false information and 2) devolving into political infighting which is not allowed here.

[nocturnial]

I think you're the one who first propagated the idea in this thread that the US was doing this for exclusive access, not me.

We're getting off topic. You agreed that the reuters article was fair. If not then don't use it in your argument. It was this article that got removed.