The video shows Bancel speaking on a panel titled “State of the Pandemic” during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, last month.
In the 58-second clip posted to social media, the moderator asks: “Let’s talk about vaccine development because we’ve heard how it happened obviously with COVID-19, starting from 2022 and how extraordinary the process was also in terms of the speed. How is development, adoption and scaling of the vaccine going when it comes to different variants and sub-variants?”
To this, Bancel responds: “So the great news versus 2020, where we are today is that we have manufacturing capacity. As Seth knows, when the pandemic happened, Moderna had made 100,000 dose in 2019 for the whole year. And I remember walking into the office of my manufacturing and I say, ‘How about we make a billion dose next year?’ And they look at me a bit funny and say, ‘What?’ And I say, ‘Yeah we need to make a billion dose next year, there’s going to be a pandemic.’”