Moderna is the front-runner in the race for a Covid-19 vaccine. Its CEO sees an 80% to 90% chance of success.
Last fall, Bancel said, the groups agreed to do a trial run of a new outbreak scenario, planned for the second quarter of 2020. But before they could, they were faced with the real thing. Chinese researchers posted the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 online Jan. 11. Two days later Moderna and the NIAID had agreed on the design of their vaccine.
That mRNA-1273 is now approaching a 30,000-person phase 3 trial, six months after it was created, is unheard of. And it's not the only one: An AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine is expected to start a similar study in August, while J&J pegs September for its start date for a large efficacy trial.aspirational, but it's certainly doable.Still, there are many questions to be answered. The vaccines have to be proved safe — and they have to work.
Moderna started making the doses for phase 2 trials even as participants were getting the first doses in phase 1, he said.
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