Moderna's had success testing a Covid vaccine
The Jerusalem Post reports Moderna, one of the science companies developing a vaccine for Coronavirus, has tested it successfully:
Update: here's an interview with Dr. Tal Zaks about the development.
Moderna Inc's experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.If the medicine provides plenty of advances antibodies for stopping viruses, that's got to be another plus. I hope this is a sign that there's light at the end of the tunnel soon.
No study volunteers experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, muscle aches or pain at the injection site.
[...] The results released on Tuesday involved three doses of the vaccine, tested in groups of 15 volunteers aged 18-55 who got two shots, 28 days apart. The groups tested 25, 100 or 250 micrograms of the vaccine.
The team reported that individuals who got two doses of the vaccine had high levels of virus-killing neutralizing antibodies that exceeded the average levels seen in people who had recovered from COVID-19.
Update: here's an interview with Dr. Tal Zaks about the development.
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