Reuters Reports Monstrous Lie Claiming Trump Sought ‘Monopoly’ on COVID-19 Vaccine

A REPORT FROM A GERMAN NEWSPAPER CLAIMING THAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WANTED TO SECURE EXCLUSIVE AMERICAN ACCESS TO A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE HAS PROVEN TO BE FALSE, BUT ONLY AFTER THE STORY WAS REPEATED AND SPREAD BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS INCLUDING REUTERS, THE GUARDIAN, AND BUSINESS INSIDER.

Reuters later stealth-edited its story to incorporate official statements denying the original newspaper report. But a New York Times journalist had already shared the Reuters article before it was altered. An MSNBC producer also shared the story.

The German newspaper Welt am Sonntag published a story Sunday claiming that White House officials had offered about $1 billion to the German biopharmaceutical firm CureVac to move to the U.S. and to make a coronavirus vaccine for the U.S. only. The company has indicated that it hopes to have a vaccine by June or July.

The newspaper cited an anonymous source in the German government claiming to “confirm” that President Trump wanted the vaccine “only for the United States,” then covered reactions from German politicians, who declared “no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine,” according to the summary from reporters Paul Carrel and Andreas Rinke.

But the story quickly fell apart. CureVac issued a statement on Twitter denying that...

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