"but my guess is some of the shorts are reducing their positions after their attempts to manipulate the stock over the past few weeks largely failed."

I suspect many of them have covered and moved over to Moderna for now. They follow heavy trading, and that's where the action is for now. I suspect they'll be back after Moderna bleeds out and we have another PR that increases our volume again. The good news is that we've been churning over $3 for a while, so I think we have a stronger floor of support for the next short attack. We're continuing up step-by-step, and that's what we want.