The vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, appeared to produce an immune response in eight people who received it similar to that seen in people convalescing from the virus.
US biotech firm Moderna reported promising early results on Monday from the first clinical tests of an experimental vaccine against the novel coronavirus performed on a small number of volunteers.
President Donald Trump welcomed the news saying"it's incredible what they can do and I've seen results. "We could not be happier about these interim data," Bancel said of the Phase 1 test, the first of three in the development of a vaccine. The Phase 2 trial, with 600 subjects, has already received the green light from the US Food and Drug Administration and Moderna said they should begin this quarter.
"The lower the dose, the more people we expect to be able to protect," said Moderna president Stephen Hoge.
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