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In Hail Mary, White House offered ‘large sums’ to access promising coronavirus vaccine research NewsColony Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, said he heard about the administration’s  bid “from several members of the government.” Another official told the Times that Trump offered a “large sum,” and the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that Trump’s offered CureVac, which has an office in Boston, roughly $1 billion. Understandably, German officials view the crisis and any solutions through the lens of “national security” and shudder at the idea of Trump having some sort of exclusive control over a vaccine. CureVac also announced the departure of Menichella, an American, from the company last week.   Frankly, the entire world, including Americans, should shudder at the idea of a greedy narcissistic grifter without a lick of human empathy gaining control of the vaccine for a global pandemic. Trump always places his own personal interests above those...