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The problematic bits here are the word "exclusively" and the phrase "but only for the United States".

Viral pandemics don't respect frontiers.

The problematic bit here is “unidentified” in “unidentified German government source” which roughly translates to “completely made up”.

The German government believes it enough that Jens Spahn, their Health Minister, is on the record as saying a US takeover of CureVac won't be allowed to happen, and CureVac removed their (American) CEO last week (following a meeting with Trump, Pence, and other American pharma industry CEOs):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-a...

The German interior minister refused to comment but also refused to deny the reports and said it would be discussed in the German government crisis committee -- if it's a made up allegation, a denial would be a cheap and easy way of defusing it. Ergo, there's fire beneath the smoke.

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