Here ’ s How To Volunteer For A Coronavirus Vaccine Trial

(CNN) — If you want to be one of the first to receive an experimental vaccine for Covid-19, now’s your chance. Wednesday, a new website — coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org — went live allowing people in the United States to register to take part in clinical trials for vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies. The website will handle registration for the four large vaccine studies that are expected to start this summer and fall, and any others that follow. The US Department of Health and Human Services announced the website Wednesday, along with the appointment of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle as the coordinating center for vaccine clinical trials run by the Covid-19 Prevention Network, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Challenges in doing a very large, very complicated trial very fast A vaccine developed by Moderna, a Cambridge biotech company, is expected to be the first to be tested in a large trial. That trial was expected to begin this week, but the start date was moved to late July or early August, according to Dr. Carlos del Rio, principal investigator at the Moderna site at Emory University in Atlanta. “That’s the target, but those target dates move up and down. They won’t let a site start until they’re absolutely ready. Some could start on July 27, and others on August 8,” del Rio said. Despite the delay, the Covid-19 vaccine trials are moving at an unprecedented speed, ...
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