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are safe and induce an immune response. However, researchers stressed more study is needed to know whether the vaccine protects people against the virus.does he hope it will be available by the end of the year on an emergency basis, Pangalos said,"Yes we do. So if we have efficacy data we hope we’ll have it any time from September onward.
by Moderna, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, found to induce immune responses in all of the volunteers who received it in a phase 1 study.Hoge said that presuming they are able to accrue cases quickly in their phase 3 study, they hope in the fall or towards the end of the year they’d have data they could submit to the Food and Drug Administration for them to make a determination if they were to approve the vaccine.
Young said they hope to complete the study by this month and submit the data to the FDA to be subject to their approval. He said the large phase 3 study will be"pivotal" in informing the safety and effectiveness profile of the vaccine. Young said they have a"line of sight and a clear clinical path" to be able to deliver up to 100 million doses of commercial scale vaccine products in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses for a vaccine in 2021. Young said that despite the early encouraging signs, there is"a lot more work still to do."
Yesterday, Young's company and German biotechnology company BioNTech announced their Covid-19 vaccine candidate was shown to elicit"robust" antibody and T cell immune responses in an early phase 1/2 study.appeared to have longer timelines. Representatives for those companies said in the hearing that their goals remain to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine next year if all goes well in trials.
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