Is Moderna's vaccine a single dose? As I recall Pfizer requires two doses 21 days apart.
It is a 2 dose, 28-days apart. In phase 1 they looked at doing 1 large dose and although it produced a good immune response, it was abandoned due to more severe reactions and it would've actually required more vaccine than the 2 doses combined.
I doubt greatly us ordinary folks will see any vaccine within six months. I'm thinking near end of 2021 or thereabouts, hopefully I get proven wrong.
They've published schedules. But Fauci himself has said April for when normal, non-at-risk people could likely get it.
I'm at risk, but not with particular co-morbidity factors. I'm hoping by March or April, possibly sooner. I wonder if I'll have a choice between the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. I'd sooner take the Moderna if for no other reason than the apparent fact that requiring much more intense refrigeration would suggest that getting the Pfizer vaccine would introduce some extra uncertainty.
I have a feeling you'll get whatever your local clinic can get. It might be Pfizer, Moderna, or Astrazenica or Johnson & Johnson. Both of which will likely publish results in the next couple of months.
Looks promising for both. Only reservation is that usually we wait for longer term safety information. In this case though, I would definitely take either and live with the possible (very minimal most likely) risks.
I did some "research" of the anti-vaxxer horror stories and it appeared that all of them were pretty rapid onset issues, not things that developed years later (except for of course, the maybe up BS like autism being caused by MMR). I don't know this for sure, but I have a feeling, these vaccines will have been given to more people in trials than any vaccine in history. 30,000+ person trials isn't very common I don't think.
Depends on what country's laws apply. I don't have a problem with his stock sell being on the same day announced as long as he didn't already know about the results for this other vaccine. Assuming he didn't there isn't a securities issue I'm aware of with his sale.
That stock sell was scheduled 3 months ago, and the results were released by the independent safety board, so he had nothing to do with the release of the results that day either. Of course, they had a good indication of when results might be coming out 3 months ago, but there is no way he could've perfectly guessed it.