US President Donald Trump speaks to the press within the Brady Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2020.Brendan Smialo
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press within the Brady Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2020.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday introduced the U.S. authorities will buy 100 million doses of Moderna’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, which is at present in late-stage human trials.
Moderna individually mentioned the deal for its vaccine, mRNA-1273, is price $1.525 billion and can give the federal authorities the choice to buy as much as 400 million further doses. The U.S. has already invested $955 million to develop Moderna’s vaccine, bringing its complete funding as much as $2.48 billion, the corporate mentioned in a press launch Tuesday.
The U.S. authorities’s take care of Moderna follows related agreements its made with pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson for his or her potential Covid-19 vaccines.
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