UK scrambles to buy 5m doses of Covid breakthrough drug
by Jessica Elgot and Ian Sample from Science | The Guardian on (#5AEHP)
Britain strikes rapid deal for Moderna vaccine showing 95% effectiveness in early results
UK officials have scrambled to secure 5m doses of a breakthrough coronavirus vaccine within four hours of early results, amid fears that Britain had missed out on supplies.
Interim findings from the US biotech firm Moderna - whose trials included high-risk and elderly people - suggested its vaccine was 95% effective. It is more expensive than the Pfizer/BioNTech version announced last week but can potentially be stored and transported more easily.
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