1. What they hope to witness is a clear benefit: fewer infections in people who received the vaccine, or less severe episodes of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
2. Statisticians have been crunching the numbers to predict how many infections would need to occur in the study population to gauge the vaccine’s effectiveness. To show the Moderna vaccine is 60 percent effective, Fauci said, there would need to be about 150 infections among the 30,000 participants.
3. Matt Slovick, 61, volunteered to be part of that history and showed up to receive a shot Monday afternoon at Meridian Clinical Research in Rockville, Md.
4. Shishir Khetan, a physician leading the effort to recruit 300 to 400 people there, said the biggest misconception he hears about the vaccine trial is the worry that the vaccine could infect people. But the vaccine doesn’t pose an infection risk; it’s just a fragment of genetic material that codes for a piece of the virus. He said he also encounters people who mistakenly believe trial participants will be infected with the virus.
5. By : Carolyn Y. Johnson
6. At 6:45 a.m. Monday, a volunteer in Savannah, Ga., received a shot in the arm and became the first participant in a massive human experiment that will test the effectiveness of an experimental coronavirus vaccine candidate.
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9. The vaccine is being developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health.
10. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said “We are participating today in the launching of a truly historic event in the history of vaccinology,”. He noted that the United States has never moved faster to develop a vaccine, from basic science to a large Phase 3 trial designed to test safety and effectiveness.
