Ebola! Zika! ATM! Inovio CEO Kim called out for gaming pandemic panic
“You seem to be Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to infectious diseases. Whenever something pops up it seems Inovio comes back into the news” and says its working on a vaccine.
That comment from CNBC’s Melissa Lee set the stage for an unusually blunt interview with Inovio ($INO) CEO Joseph Kim, with her colleague Meg Tirrell jumping in with a series of tough questions.
The two CNBC reporters were all business in the interview, highlighting Inovio’s habit of scrambling onto every pandemic wagon that gets rolling and issuing a string of bullish projections about leading the race for a new vaccine—all while raising more cash from investors.
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