Moderna Announces Coronavirus Vaccine Efficacy Of Nearly 95% In Preliminary Clinical Trial Results; Media Outlets Report On Other Vaccine Research, Issues
Washington Post: Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine found to be nearly 95 percent effective in a preliminary analysis
“Biotechnology firm Moderna announced Monday that a preliminary analysis shows its experimental coronavirus vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective at preventing illness, including severe cases — a striking initial result that leaves the United States with the prospect that two coronavirus vaccines could be available on a limited basis by the end of the year. The news comes a week after pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech lifted the stock market and people’s hopes with the news that their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. … Moderna’s vaccine, co-developed with [Anthony] Fauci’s institute, is being tested in 30,000 people…” (Johnson, 11/16).
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The Atlantic: Listen: A 90 Percent Effective Vaccine (Hamblin, 11/13).
CIDRAP News: Feds update vaccine arrival amid record U.S. COVID-19 rise (Schnirring, 11/13).
Financial Times: J&J to launch U.K. trial of its Covid-19 vaccine (Mancini, 11/15).
Forbes: Pfizer Has A Head Start, But The Covid-19 Vaccine Market Is Still Up For Grabs (Jennings, 11/13).
NBC News: The promise of coronavirus vaccine at a factory in India — and the looming fight over it (Engel et al., 11/15).
New York Times: How Pfizer Plans to Distribute Its Vaccine (It’s Complicated) (Robbins/Gelles, 11/12).
NPR: Who Gets The Vaccine First? And How Will They Get It? (Sophia et al., 11/16).
The Observer/Guardian: Speedy work on Covid gives the vaccine industry a shot in the arm (Kollewe, 11/14).
STAT: J&J supply chain exec: ‘I lose sleep’ over sending Covid-19 vaccine to lower-income countries (Silverman, 11/16).
The Telegraph: Oxford seeks to keep pace in hunt for game-changing vaccine (Boland, 11/16).
The Telegraph: How a deep-frozen vaccine reached 400,000 people, helped stop Ebola and holds hope for coronavirus (Rigby, 11/15).
TIME: Why You May Not Be Able to Get Pfizer’s Frontrunner COVID-19 Vaccine (Ducharme, 11/13).
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