WASHINGTON: The US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday it would enter the final stage of human trials for its Covid-19 vaccine on July 27, after promisi...
: The US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday it would enter the final stage of human trials for its Covid-19 vaccine on July 27, after promising early results were published in an influential journal.
If they do get symptoms, the vaccine can still be considered a success if it stops severe cases of Covid-19.The announcement came after the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday published results from the first stage of Moderna’s vaccine trial, which showed the first 45 participants all developed antibodies to the virus.
These revealed the vaccine had generated immune responses in eight patients, a result called “encouraging” by Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is co-developing the vaccine. Following the second round, participants had higher levels of antibodies than most patients who have had Covid-19 and gone on to generate their own antibodies.
“The results look pretty good and look pretty consistent,“ David Lo, a professor of biomedical sciences at University of California Riverside toldBut he cautioned that more work was needed to evaluate the vaccine’s safety including making sure that it did not backfire by eventually making the immune system “tolerant” toward the real virus.
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