Drugmaker Delivers First Coronavirus Vaccine for Human Testing

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Source: Wall Street Journal

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 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.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/drugmaker-delivers-first-coronavirus-vaccine-for-human-testing/ar-BB10l6xQ

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No need. Trumpy says the virus will be dead by April

[Hoyt]

1. Those damn drug makers.

[defacto7]

2. So we could have a vaccine distribution available Nov-Dec.

Just a guess.

[abqtommy]

3. Wow. Here I've been reading that the "experts" say it would take a year to develop a vaccine.

Now I wonder what the cost will be...

[DrToast]

6. It would take a year for it to become available

Lots of testing still to do.

[berni_mccoy]

4. This is good news.

[Wolf Frankula]

5. Jenny McCarthy will say it causes autism.

We know that Jenny McCarthy causes autism.

Wolf

[DallasNE]

7. A Word Of Caution

Track-record.

This company has never brought a drug to market.

But there has to be a first. Let's hope this is it.

[cbdo2007]

8. This is what Trump is hearing and betting on...

Is that there will be a vaccine available before it becomes widespread here...which is probably true.

We get these every few years...some horrible thing that will wipe us all out, bird flu, swine flu, mad cow disease, whatever...that rarely makes it to the US in very large numbers, so chances are the same thing will happen this time too.

[Aristus]

9. Jim Carrey says it will cause jerky spasms and strained facial expressions.

So basically, it'll make you behave like him...