Moderna Phase 1 Vaccine Results

bone · May 18, 2020

Moderna, an American biotech company located in Cambridge, MA.
NASDAQ symbol: MRNA
Their specialty is therapeutics using messenger RNA - specifically, injecting certain proprietary mRNA serums into patients to bolster the person's ability to generate an immune response.

Limited Phase One COVID-19 Vaccine Study:

* Dose dependent response (higher doses of the vaccine = greater immunity)

* 8 / 8 patients showed neutralizing antibodies

* Antibody levels similar to or higher than those persons who have recovered from COVID-19 infections.

* Generally safe and well tolerated

* Phase Three expected to start in July

S2007S · May 18, 2020

How many trillions have we donated to cancer research and it still exists....

bone · May 18, 2020

You might have a cognitive reasoning disorder.

I jest.

S2007S said:
How many trillions have we donated to cancer research and it still exists....

bone · May 18, 2020

Get outside, get some sunshine, and do everything you can to build up your immune system.

destriero · May 18, 2020

Pointless. No way it goes into general circulation until mid 2021 and we'll be at full herd immunity for ver2 of COVID-19. No immunity for ver3.

hafez50 · May 18, 2020

Bingo. The market's acting like it goes in circulation by sept. Mid 2021 at the earliest . What are the long term side affects with a rushed to mkt drug? Will there be other strains its ineffective against ? This is with us for the next 2 yrs min and by that time 1000's of business's will be gone . There's 10 more co's working on vaccines. Does that mean every time we get successful phase 1,2 or 3 we sky? We'll be at 100k in a yrs.

S2007S · May 18, 2020

hafez50 said:
Bingo. The market's acting like it goes in circulation by sept. Mid 2021 at the earliest . What are the long term side affects with a rushed to mkt drug? Will there be other strains its ineffective against ? This is with us for the next 2 yrs min and by that time 1000's of business's will be gone . There's 10 more co's working on vaccines. Does that mean every time we get successful phase 1,2 or 3 we sky? We'll be at 100k in a yrs.

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S2007S · May 18, 2020

hafez50 said:
Bingo. The market's acting like it goes in circulation by sept. Mid 2021 at the earliest . What are the long term side affects with a rushed to mkt drug? Will there be other strains its ineffective against ? This is with us for the next 2 yrs min and by that time 1000's of business's will be gone . There's 10 more co's working on vaccines. Does that mean every time we get successful phase 1,2 or 3 we sky? We'll be at 100k in a yrs.

Reminds me the day gilead announced positive results. Same thing happened. All they have to do is take 10 or 20 biotechnology companies that are competing for the cure and announce each day a positive finding, within a week will be at historic highs and in a month above dow 40,000.

hafez50 · May 18, 2020

S2007S said:
Reminds me the day gilead announced positive results. Same thing happened. All they have to do is take 10 or 20 biotechnology companies that are competing for the cure and announce each day a positive finding, within a week will be at historic highs and in a month above dow 40,000.

Kind of like the China deal bs . Conveniently time a " deal is near" on the news wires every 2-3 weeks to keep the mkt up for 18 months . We then got a deal and skied and now it looks like the deal is dead . I'd bet anything Mr Trump was on the phone to the ceo of Moderna and told him to get an announcement out as their being funded by the gov't .

ktm · May 18, 2020

I see this a bit differently. It's widely believed the vaccine will have comparable efficacy to the flu shot - maybe 10-50% effective per season depending on strain and a host of other factors. It seems generally accepted in the medical community that Covid will continue to exist, develop various strains over the coming years and probably kill tens of thousands every year, like the standard flu.

Given all that, getting a working vaccine is little more than a crutch for a segment of the population (including many in powerful positions that control opening/closing of businesses) to inspire confidence that "everything is going to be ok". That confidence is necessary to extract these folks from their current fearful and paralyzed state back into a semi-functioning consumer.