
'Part of recovery is awareness': Pandemic casts harsh spotlight on industry-wide lack of diversity in clinical trials
Moderna emerged as an early leader in the race for a vaccine to stop Covid-19 in its tracks. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech bounded through development of one of the world’s first mRNA vaccines, but in September — when the pandemic was claiming upwards of 700 lives a day in the US — they took a step back.
The company did something not many (if any) biotechs have ever done: At the urging of the US government, they slowed Phase III enrollment to recruit more participants from minority groups.
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