Drugmaker Moderna Delivers First Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine for Human Testing

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Drugmaker Moderna Inc. has shipped the first batch of its rapidly developed coronavirus vaccine to U.S. government researchers, who will launch the first human tests of whether the experimental shot could help suppress the epidemic originating in China.

Moderna on Monday sent vaccine vials from its Norwood, Mass., manufacturing plant to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., the company said. The institute expects by the end of April to start a clinical trial of about 20 to 25 healthy volunteers, testing whether two doses of the shot are safe and induce an immune response likely to protect against infection, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci said in an interview. Initial results could become available in July or August.

Moderna’s turnaround time in producing the first batch of the vaccine—co-designed with NIAID, after learning the new virus’s genetic sequence in January—is a stunningly fast response to an emerging outbreak.

If a trial starts as planned in April, it would be about three months from vaccine design to human testing. In comparison, after an outbreak of an older coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, in China in 2002, it took about 20 months for NIAID to get a vaccine into the first stage of human testing, according to Dr. Fauci.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-first-coronavirus-vaccine-for-human-testing-11582579099 (subscription)

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Why the story here? Because I could not help it that Sanders describes this, and other companies that are rushing to develop vaccines as "corrupt." Yes, there is the profit motive here, human nature, but this is what drives innovation. Not government mandate. And, of course, it was these "corrupt" pharmaceutical that developed the stents that saved his life.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Really? Really?

What is your basis for saying that?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I applaud that drug company for its rapid development of this much needed medication.

Bernie is wrong to describe this and other drug companies as "corrupt."

I completely agree with your statement on human nature driving innovation!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. It's true that there's a paywall for the article. But...

there's no paywall for the approx. 4 minute video that gives a lot of information about the vaccine and how it works.

Definitely worth watching!

[DanTex]

5. LOL.

[Blue_true]

7. What's funny Dan? nt

[DanTex]

8. This argument, that somehow single payer would mean less vaccines. It's hilarious.

[question everything]

9. Can you show me where the words "single payer" appear in the OP?

I’ve recently heard him and every single industry is “corrupt.”

Were it not for the pharmaceutical industry he and I - a cancer survivor- and million of his supporters would be dead.

So why take the immediate response that this is about “single payer?”

[evertonfc]

6. first up