Covid-19 roundup: Amid calls for transparency, Moderna releases full PhIII protocol; AstraZeneca trial halt thought to be 'confirmed transverse myelitis,' per CNN
Prominent scientists, public health experts and industry critics have been calling for more transparency from vaccine makers, including the release of the companies’ Phase III trial protocols. On Thursday, Moderna became the first major developer to do so.
“It is usually not what industry does,” CEO Stéphane Bancel told Endpoints News in an interview in advance of their R&D day today. “But given the need there is for the scientific community and the medical community and the media to understand how the vaccine is being developed, to make sure people are confident in the safety of the process, in the governance with scientific independence in the medical world and the like, we’re dropping tomorrow the full protocol. It is unredacted.”
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