German vaccine firm denies report of US takeover bid

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An excerpt from [that previous article]:

> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

Some of the questions you want to ask when you see an article quote like this:

- Who is this unnamed source, exactly?

- Is the article accurately representing what they said?

- In particular: does it accurately represent their intended meaning, in context?

- Does that person speak for the German government? Or is this one government employee's opinion?

- If a German company moves its research labs into the USA, but remains a German company - like the article says - wouldn't that make it impossible for them to hide the secret formula for a vaccine?

- Why would the USA (or any country) even try to keep a vaccine formula secret, in the face of a global pandemic like this? If you think about it, is that comic-book-villain scenario even plausible?