{"id":107282,"date":"2020-05-19T00:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/7-new-insights-about-the-frontrunner-u-s-vaccine-candidate"},"modified":"2020-05-19T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:22:46","slug":"7-new-insights-about-the-frontrunner-u-s-vaccine-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/7-new-insights-about-the-frontrunner-u-s-vaccine-candidate","title":{"rendered":"7 New Insights about the Frontrunner U.S. Vaccine Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/7-new-insights-about-the-frontrunner-u-s-vaccine-candidate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci called the vaccine\u2019s preclinical data \u201cimpressive\u201d and told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2020\/05\/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd\/\">National Geographic<\/a> this week that a vaccine could be ready for general use as early as January.<\/p>\n<p>The Phase I trial has dosed 45 healthy adults. Phase II trials are about to start, enrolling around 600 adults. Pivotal efficacy trials would follow soon thereafter, bankrolled in collaboration with the government office BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority).<\/p>\n<p>Today, the chief medical officer of Moderna, Tal Zaks, answered burning questions from the public in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/05\/06\/digital-event-combating-covid-19-part-3\/?utm_campaign=stat_events&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=87532104&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--FwVmGQ-YwCu-6spD92cH8HP1kpxo3LynFAVPtl-oSLeaYq3ieMWSApfbNVXdNbr2mPIhi&utm_content=87532104&utm_source=hs_email\">webinar hosted by STAT<\/a>. Here\u2019s an edited and condensed summary of his answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci called the vaccine\u2019s preclinical data \u201cimpressive\u201d and told National Geographic this week that a vaccine could be ready for general use as early as January. The Phase I trial has dosed 45 healthy adults. Phase II trials are about to start, enrolling around 600 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}