Biden Awarded $28 Million to 'Vaccine Company' Run by COVID Adviser and Based from PO Box

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During the final months of the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health awarded $28 million to a mysterious venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc., a biomedical firm founded in 2022 whose chief financial officer happens to be one of former president Joe Biden’s top COVID advisers.

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The generically named firm has no website, and none of its top officers, including its chief financial officer, former Biden COVID adviser Sonya Bernstein, have disclosed their association to the company on their public résumés. Even the principal office of the taxpayer-funded business is a mystery, with Vaccine Company listing a different home base in each of its respective business registration filings in California, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

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"Current records indicate $2 million of its $28.2 million ARPA-H award has been spent," Ernst wrote to Kennedy. "I would encourage you to look into clawing back the remaining funds, and seeking reimbursement for the spent funds if in fact this ARPA-H payment to a newly established biotech start-up, run by a recent Biden political appointee, was improperly awarded."

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The primary clues pointing to who’s behind Vaccine Company are found in its business registration filings in various states across the country, the most detailed of which was a filing it submitted in California last June. There, the company disclosed Bernstein, described by Politico in 2021 as Biden’s COVID "wunderkind," as its chief financial officer. But Bernstein’s LinkedIn page contains no mention of her work heading the finances for Vaccine Company, though she advertises her service as Biden’s senior COVID aide in 2021 and 2022 and, before that, her work on the Biden-Harris transition team in 2020.

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