Two founders of Moderna and one of the top investors in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company have made it onto Forbes’s list of the wealthiest people in the United States after developing a COVID-19 vaccine that has been used throughout the globe.
While the rest of the world struggled over the past year with a crumbling economy, job losses, and financial hardship, the 400 wealthiest Americans saw their collective fortune increase more than 40 percent, to $4.5 trillion, according to Forbes.