{"id":97205,"date":"2020-11-30T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97205"},"modified":"2020-11-30T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:08:09","slug":"science-magazine-absolutely-remarkable-no-one-who-got-modernas-vaccine-in-trial-developed-severe-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97205","title":{"rendered":"(Science Magazine) \u2018Absolutely remarkable\u2019: No one who got Moderna\u2019s vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the spate of stunning news about COVID-19 vaccines, the biotech company Moderna announced the final results of the 30,000-person efficacy trial for its candidate in a press release today: Only 11 people who received two doses of the vaccine developed COVID-19 symptoms after being infected with the pandemic coronavirus, versus 185 symptomatic cases in a placebo group. That is an efficacy of 94.1%, the company says, far above what many vaccine scientists were expecting just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>More impressive still, Moderna\u2019s candidate had 100% efficacy against severe disease. There were zero such COVID-19 cases among those vaccinated, but 30 in the placebo group. The company today plans to file a request for emergency use authorization (EUA) for its vaccine with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is also seeking a similar green light from the European Medicines Agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/11\/absolutely-remarkable-no-one-who-got-modernas-vaccine-trial-developed-severe-covid-19\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Absolutely remarkable&#39; : No one who got Moderna&#39;s vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19 | Science | AAAS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hrtfy4XmWW\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hrtfy4XmWW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlzimmer\/status\/1333399974437146624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the spate of stunning news about COVID-19 vaccines, the biotech company Moderna announced the final results of the 30,000-person efficacy trial for its candidate in a press release today: Only 11 people who received two doses of the vaccine<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97205\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97208,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97205\/revisions\/97208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}