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The Ebola Vaccine 2,000 Congolese Frontline Workers Received Isn't Known to Work on the Strain Killing Them
Bundibugyo Ebola has no licensed vaccine, so the response is dosing frontline workers with Ervebo, approved only against a different strain, while the State Department fast-tracks $50 million to CEPI and a four-candidate portfolio that includes Moderna, in an outbreak the surveillance system missed
InvestigationsThe Last Time Moderna's Stock Soared on Vaccine News, Insiders Sold $400 Million. It's Happening Again.
Moderna's stock has run up 137 percent in a month on a melanoma-vaccine trial that has not released its detailed data or reported overall survival. As retail chased the rally, the CEO sold $28.7 million in shares two weeks before the readout, and the rest of the C-suite cashed out after the stock tr
Drugs & FDAThe FDA Approved Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot for Seniors Without Proving It Works in Them
In February the FDA's own vaccine chief refused to even review it. One week later the agency reversed course, and the trial data never changed.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA Said No to Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot in February. By August, the Two Men Who Said No Were Gone.
The FDA refused to even review Moderna's mRNA flu shot in February because it was never tested against the enhanced vaccines seniors are steered toward. The two officials who objected are gone, and the agency approved it anyway, for the oldest patients, on a promise to prove it works later.
Drugs & FDAModerna's mRNA flu shot got a 9-0 vote. The comparator question that killed its first filing did not go away.
An FDA panel voted 9-0 to back Moderna's first mRNA flu vaccine. Four months earlier, the same agency refused to even read the file over the comparator the trial used. The comparator did not change.