it was developed just when it was treated as 'not worse than a flu',
at january, when China didn't even acknowledge anything and
coronavirus generals didn't exist.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.htmlhad been designed by January 13.
short trip to memory lane
30 December earliest report on the virus
31 December The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission informed the city community about the early signs of a pneumonia outbreak(Cases in total: 27)
1 January the Huanan Seafood Market was closed on 1 January 2020 for "remediation".
2 January 2020 41 admitted hospital patients in Wuhan
3 January 2020 Chinese scientists at the National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention (IVDC) ruled out the possibilities for 26 common respiratory pathogens, US is notified of outbreak.
4 January 2020 :Hong Kong,Ho Pak-Leung, warned that the city should implement the strictest possible monitoring system for a mystery new viral pneumonia that infected dozens of people on the mainland,
5 January: The number of suspected cases reached 59 with seven in a critical condition.
6 January: the Wuhan health authorities announced they continued seeking the cause but had so far ruled out influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus, and coronaviruses SARS and MERS as the respiratory pathogen that had infected 59 people as of 5 January
7 January: In a closed meeting of the Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping "made requests for the prevention and control work of the coronavirus outbreak
the disease has been designated novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP)
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created an "incident management system" and issued a travel notice Monday for travellers to Wuhan, Hubei province, China due to the cluster of cases of pneumonia of an unknown etiology..."
8 January:South Korea announced the first possible case of the virus coming from China
9 January:The WHO confirmed that the novel coronavirus had been isolated from one person who had been hospitalised.[39][40] On the same day, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control posted its first risk assessment
10 January: The gene sequencing data of the isolated 2019-nCoV, a virus from the same family as the SARS coronavirus, was posted on Virological.org by researchers from Fudan University, Shanghai.
11–12 January
In China, more than 700 close contacts of the 41 confirmed cases, including more than 400 healthcare workers, had been monitored, with no new cases reported in China since 5 January.[28][24][43][55] The WHO published initial guidance on travel advice, testing in the laboratory and medical investigation.[43] WHO is saying that "The [Chinese] government reports that there is no clear evidence that the virus passes easily from person to person"
11 January Moderna starts developing the Vaccine, spending millions.
13 January Moderna vaccine is complete in record 2 days.
Don't you see this timeline as a little bit suspicious?
At 11 January there was no indication this is going to be profitable to treat some obscure Chinese disease that was sequenced 24h ago and was confined to wuhan. However Moderna knew in advance..