Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Set For Final Trial Stage After ‘Promising’ Results

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Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Set For Final Trial Stage After ‘Promising’ Results

In this file photo taken on May 18, 2020, a syringe is pictured on an illustration representation of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFPThe US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday it would enter the final stage of its human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine on July 27, after promising early results were published in a journal.

It is designed to learn whether the vaccine can prevent infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or, if people still get infected, whether it can prevent the infection progressing toward symptoms. This file photo shows medical workers in Abuja preparing to test Nigerians for COVID-19. As of July 15, the pandemic had infected 33,616 and a total of over 13.2 million people globally, killing over 575,000 people.Moderna is in pole position in the global race to find a vaccine against the coronavirus, which has infected more than 13.2 million people and killed 570,000.

Scientists caution that the first vaccines to come to market may not be the most effective or safest.

 

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