Oldbear83 said:
"It's an irrelevant question."
No, it's salient.
It goes down a false equivalence rabbit hole, but I'll play.
Moderna finished in two days with no political involvement. Full stop.
Pfizer is working with BioNTech in Germany. The IP is German.
Pfizer received $0 from operation Wharp Speed. $0.
Pfizer received a $2 billion contract in July after the development of the vaccine was finished. There was no prior government involvement until July's distribution contract, and Trump lying about his involvement.
Want to know how that is true?
The $2B contract is for 100 million doses contingent on FDA approval. The government also paid an option fee to buy 500 million more doses. No Wharp Speed participants received options or FDA contingencies.
Or you could just believe Trump's own DHHS. Natalie Balassarre, spokeswoman for DHHS, put out these direct quotes in a press release:
"When the U.S. government does not fund the creation of any of this intellectual property, as is the case with Pfizer, the government is not entitled to any rights to the company's IP. The U.S. government did not fund any of Pfizer's R&D used to create their mRNA vaccine."
-direct quote