Headline is wrong, this wasn’t transferring patients or any other people either.
A vaccine “candidate” is something that might be worth investigating as a possible vaccine so this is about making Moderna’s research samples available to a UNC-CH lab. Transfers like this happen all the time, completely routine.
Nor is the date especially suspicious, because there are literally hundreds of coronavirus species out there and Moderna and others have been doing coronavirus vaccine research for years. If you dig you’ll find something reported about research going on with one coronavirus or another every month or so for at least as far back as SARS and MERS (both coronaviruses, and they got the people’s attention at the research labs).
Headline is wrong, this wasn’t transferring patients or any other people either.
A vaccine “candidate” is something that might be worth investigating as a possible vaccine so this is about making Moderna’s research samples available to a UNC-CH lab. Transfers like this happen all the time, completely routine.
Nor is the date especially suspicious, because there are literally hundreds of coronavirus species out there and Moderna and others have been doing coronavirus vaccine research for years. If you dig you’ll find something reported about research going on with one coronavirus or another every month or so for at least as far back as SARS and MERS (both coronaviruses, and they got the people’s attention at the research labs).