Why Moderna won’t share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the government that paid for its development Posted byAna Santos Rutschman November 19, 2021 Leave a comment on Why Moderna won’t share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the government that paid for its development Moderna claims its scientists alone invented the mRNA sequence used to produce its COVID-19 vaccine. The US government, which helped fund the drug, disagrees.