
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel (AP Images)
The leaders in the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine say they could have pivotal data in October — but Trump claims FDA is slowing recruitment
Late Friday night Moderna tweeted that their Phase III study had come close to the halfway mark in recruiting the 30,000 or so subjects needed for the pivotal test of their Covid-19 vaccine mRNA-1273.
So I thought it was a good time to catch up with CEO Stéphane Bancel on the timing of the readout, which is of intense interest around the world — and particularly in Washington DC, where the top regulators and scientists involved repeatedly insist they won’t tolerate any political interference in pushing a premature announcement of a win ahead of the election November 3rd.
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