Five companies have now been picked by the Trump administration as the most likely candidates to produce a coronavirus vaccine, The New York Times reports.This comes as part of Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the administration’s national program to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.Among its other objectives, Operation Warp Speed aims to have substantial quantities of a safe and effective vaccine available for Americans by January 2021.The five companies selected are as follows:Moderna’s (MRNA) mRNA1273 which is currently undergoing Phase 2 trials;A joint collaboration between AstraZeneca (AZN) and Oxford University on AZD1222 which is …read more
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