Moderna got 955 million for investment of their vaccine back in May, and an additional 1.53 billion back in August for the purchase of 100 million doses which has also further been increased to 300 million doses now: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/14/the-us-has-already-invested-...
And I guess the unstated conclusion is that they wisely spent a chunk of that money on hiring people with a long history of FDA compliance, regulatory guidelines, international export regulations, and product management?
(I suppose my point is that I would have expected such teething problems from a young company like Moderna, but they seem to have done everything right.)
Yes, that money came from the US government program literally codenamed "Operation Warp Speed" which was set up as a public–private partnership initiated by the United States government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
