Are Dr. Anthony Fauci and top NIH officials getting $150K per year in Big Pharma kickbacks from the Moderna mRNA vaccine?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : Dr. Fauci + NIH Officials Make $150 Yearly From mRNA Vaccine!

People are sharing a video clip from a Dr. Phil interview, in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) claimed or suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci and top NIH officials are getting $150,000 per year in Big Pharma kickbacks from the Moderna mRNA vaccine!

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Truth : Dr. Fauci + NIH Officials Do Not Make $150 Yearly From mRNA Vaccine!

This is yet another example of fake news created or promoted by anti-vaccine activists, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : FDA Does Not Get Payments For Vaccine Approval

Let me start by pointing out that the US FDA does not get payments for approving vaccines.

In the video, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to repeat what his running mate, Nicole Shanahan recently suggested – that the FDA is approving “poorly-tested” vaccines because it’s partly funded by pharmaceutical companies.

That’s simply not true. As I explained in my earlier article, the US Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act in 1992, which requires pharmaceutical companies to pay the US FDA for the time and cost of reviewing the drugs and vaccines for regulatory approval.

The user fee that the FDA charges has no effect on its review process, as those standards are “written into law” and the FDA has to follow those standards, “regardless of the source of funding”.

As long as the FDA meets the review timeline goals, it receives the user fee even if it denies approval for the new drug / vaccine / medical device. So the user fee has no bearing on its approval process.

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Fact #2 : FDA Is Different From NIH

In the video, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to confuse the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

When Dr. Phil asked him to confirm his claim that the FDA has been “bought off by Big Pharma”, RFK Jr. appears to have confused the FDA (which is a regulatory agency) with the NIH, which is responsible for biomedical and public health research.

To be clear – the FDA regulates food, drugs, and medical devices, but it does not receive royalties as it does not conduct research. On the other hand, the NIH conducts research and receives royalties for the technologies it develops, but it does not review or approve new drugs or vaccines.

If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cannot differentiate between the FDA and the NIH, how much stock should we put into his wild claims???

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Fact #3 : NIH Owns Patents Licensed By Moderna

Moderna licensed two technologies developed at the NIH for use in its mRNA vaccine for COVID-19. Those patents are owned by the US government, and not the individual inventors working at the NIH.

Moderna reported in its financial reports that it paid a “catch-up royalty payment of $400 million to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases“, which is one of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centres, but this payment is also split between NIH, Dartmouth College, and the Scripps Research Institute.

By the end of 2021, seven other pharmaceutical companies (including BioNTech) also paid those same three institutions for using the same techniques in their COVID-19 vaccines.

Moderna also revealed in its financial report, that it would also pay the NIAID “low single-digit royalties on future net sales, a minimum annual royalty payment, and certain contingent development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments“.

Fact #4 : Anthony Fauci Is Not Named In mRNA-Related Patents

Six NIAID scientists are listed as inventors on those two patent applications licensed by Moderna for its mRNA vaccine. They would profit financially from the Moderna mRNA vaccine, as the Federal Technology Act of 1986 requires government agencies that licence inventions to share some of the royalty money with those inventors.

However, Dr. Anthony Fauci is not one of those six NIAID scientists named on the two patent applications. Dr. Anthony Fauci holds six patents, but none are related to mRNA, and all six patents predate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Therefore, claims or suggestions that Dr. Anthony Fauci financially benefitted from the two NIH patents used in the Moderna mRNA vaccine appear to be completely untrue.

Fact #5 : Patent Protection Only Lasts 20 Years

In the video, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that NIH officials would receive $150,000 per year forever – not only during their lifetime but also their children’s.

That is rather absurd as patent protection generally lasts only 20 years in the United States. There won’t be a need to licence for any pharmaceutical companies to licence those two patents from the NIAID / NIH for future mRNA vaccines after patent protection expires 20 years later.

In other words – those inventors in NIH can only expect to receive royalty payments for a maximum of 20 years, not forever…

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Fact #6 : NIH Inventor Royalty Is Limited To $150,000 Per Year

This isn’t the first time Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that top NIH officials are being paid $150,000 a year for life for the Moderna mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. Back in March 2021, RFK Jr. made similar claims in a NewsGuard interview.

However, he never provided any evidence – then or now, that Dr. Anthony Fauci, or any top NIH official are actually receiving $150,000 per year from the Moderna mRNA vaccine patents.

The truth is – the $150,000 per year figure is the official limit on royalty that any scientist may receive from all inventions while working at the NIH. As NIAID spokesperson Jennifer Routh explained in February 2021:

In other words – even if an NIH scientist invents ten groundbreaking drug that makes BILLIONS each for the NIH, he/she is only entitled to $150,000 per year for all ten drugs.

While it is plausible that the six NIH scientists listed in the two patents used by Moderna and other pharmaceutical companies may receive $150,000 per year, there is still no actual evidence that they actually received that much.

But to be clear – the only people getting this royalty money are the scientists whose names are listed in the patent applications, and simply “top NIH officials”.

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