Health
Despite effort, enrollment of minorities for coronavirus vaccine trial is lagging – CNN
Moderna, the first company to launch large-scale clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine, has enrolled minorities at levels more than three times lower than those requested by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the NIAID.
(CNN)Moderna, the first company to launch large-scale clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine, has enrolled minorities at levels more than three times lower than those requested by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The trials could be delayed if Moderna doesn’t recruit sufficient numbers of minorities to join them.
Moderna is aiming to recruit 30,000 volunteers into its Phase 3 trial, and in a tweet Friday evening revealed that 18…
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