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We can’t skip steps on the road to a COVID-19 vaccine – The Verge
The next phase of COVID-19 vaccine research will take months. Moderna just started Phase 3 trials for its vaccine candidate and won’t expect results until late fall. The process takes time for a reason, and researchers can’t skip steps.
Theres only so much researchers can do to accelerate the process
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The pharmaceutical company Moderna started the last, longest step in the process of testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate at the end of July a Phase 3 clinical trial. Its an enormous undertaking: their goal is to recruit 30,000 people, inject some of them with an experimental vaccine and then follow each and every one of them to see how many contract the coronavirus and…
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