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Washington, Dec 6 (Prensa Latina) Big pharma executives and shareholders saw their wealth skyrocket in the week after the Omicron variant was discovered, with eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders making a combined .3bn.
Moderna's CEO added over $800 million to his personal fortune after stock prices soared in response to the variant.
EXCLUSIVE: Moderna's CEO Stephane Bancel pocketed a cool £623million ($824million) in share growth alone - and sold 10,000 of his own stocks for $319 each on November 26.
The massive inoculation gap between rich and poor countries has kept the door open to COVID variants.
UK and EU accused of ‘recklessly blocking’ plans to allow lower-income countries to produce own vaccines