{"id":115284,"date":"2020-10-29T23:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T06:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/moderna-says-its-preparing-global-launch-of-covid-vaccine-as-it-takes-in-1-1-billion-in-deposits"},"modified":"2020-10-29T23:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T06:06:40","slug":"moderna-says-its-preparing-global-launch-of-covid-vaccine-as-it-takes-in-1-1-billion-in-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/moderna-says-its-preparing-global-launch-of-covid-vaccine-as-it-takes-in-1-1-billion-in-deposits","title":{"rendered":"Moderna says it\u2019s preparing global launch of Covid vaccine as it takes in $1.1 billion in deposits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moderna-says-its-preparing-global-launch-of-covid-vaccine-as-it-takes-in-1-1-billion-in-deposits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=MRNA\">Moderna<\/a> is prepping for the global launch of its potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/10\/29\/coronavirus-updates-latest-news-on-the-covid-19-pandemic.html\">coronavirus<\/a> vaccine, already taking in $1.1 billion in deposits from governments awaiting the potentially lifesaving drug, the biotech firm said Thursday in its third-quarter earnings report.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said it was in ongoing talks with the World Health Organization-backed COVAX initiative on a tiered pricing proposal for its potential vaccine, which it\u2019s tentatively calling mRNA-1273. It already has supply agreements in North America, the Middle East and in other regions of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actively preparing for the launch of mRNA-1273 and we have signed a number of supply agreements with governments around the world,\u201d Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in a press release. \u201cModerna is committed to the highest data quality standards and rigorous scientific research as we continue to work with regulators to advance mRNA-1273.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna is prepping for the global launch of its potential coronavirus vaccine, already taking in $1.1 billion in deposits from governments awaiting the potentially lifesaving drug, the biotech firm said Thursday in its third-quarter earnings report. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said it was in ongoing talks with the World Health Organization-backed COVAX initiative on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115284","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}