A new effort to prepare for future bird flu outbreaks is moving forward, despite a major funding setback.
The study is expected to include about 4,000 adults. The company said the first participants have already received a shot. Earlier research involving about 300 healthy adults showed promising results for safety and immune response, Moderna said.
The trial had been delayed after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cut funding last year that had been set aside to support the development of pandemicDespite the blow, Moderna secured as much as $54.3 million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, a global group that supports vaccine development.
“Our platform technology's efficiency and scalability are critical to supporting global health security and responding to potential future threats,” he said. In a statement, HHS said it reduced mRNA vaccine funding after a "rigorous review," adding the technology "remains under-tested" for some uses, because they do not protect effectively against infections from mutating strain of viruses such as COVID and flu," HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement.
"Also, these companies had already been massively subsidized by the government, and we decided to reinvest the money in other more promising technologies," he added.used during the pandemic were shown to be safe and effective, and they are able to be developed more quickly than traditionalGet more information on bacterial skin infections, which bacteria cause food poisoning, sexually transmitted bacteria, and more. Explore the most common bacterial infections.
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