{"id":111162,"date":"2020-08-12T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/moderna-signs-covid-19-vaccine-supply-deal-with-u-s-for-1-525-billion"},"modified":"2020-08-12T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:23:33","slug":"moderna-signs-covid-19-vaccine-supply-deal-with-u-s-for-1-525-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/moderna-signs-covid-19-vaccine-supply-deal-with-u-s-for-1-525-billion","title":{"rendered":"Moderna Signs COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Deal with U.S. for $1.525 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moderna-signs-covid-19-vaccine-supply-deal-with-u-s-for-1-525-billion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As one of the leaders in developing a COVID-19 vaccine,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biospace.com\/employer\/397613\/moderna-inc-\/\">Moderna<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.modernatx.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/moderna-announces-supply-agreement-us-government-initial-100\">signed a contract<\/a> <\/strong>worth up to $1.525 billion with the U.S. government to supply 100 million doses of mRNA-1273, the company\u2019s experimental COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement also includes incentive payments for hitting a production schedule. Moderna had a previous award of up to $955 million from BARDA for the development of the vaccine to licensure, which brings the U.S. government\u2019s commitment for early access to the vaccine up to $2.48 billion. The U.S. government, as part of Operation Warp Speed, also can acquire another 400 million doses.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this deal, the U.S. government says Americans will receive the vaccine at no cost. It is possible that healthcare professionals will charge for the cost of administering it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the leaders in developing a COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna signed a contract worth up to $1.525 billion with the U.S. government to supply 100 million doses of mRNA-1273, the company\u2019s experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The agreement also includes incentive payments for hitting a production schedule. Moderna had a previous award of up to $955 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111162","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\/111162","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\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}