Fauci ‘ Satisfied ’ With Enrollment So Far In Moderna Coronavirus Vaccine Trial

(CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci said he’s “satisfied” with the enrollment in the first week of the first US Phase 3 clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine. CNN has obtained part of a Friday, July 31 email from Moderna, the company running the trial, that states 1,290 people were randomly assigned to get either the vaccine or a dummy shot as of that date. The trial began on Monday, July 27. The email was sent to sites across the US that are participating in the Moderna trial. Moderna plans to enroll 30,000 people at its 89 sites. Read: How To Volunteer In Boston Area “We hope within a period of a few months, a couple of months, that we’ll be able to enroll hopefully by the end of the summer so that we can start getting some results,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said July 27 when he announced the start of the Phase 3 trial. Fauci told CNN that he expects to get an answer about whether the vaccine works in November or December. “Maybe we’ll get an answer as early as October, but I doubt it,” he said. If the pace of enrollment in the first week of the trial — 1,290 over five days — were to continue, the study wouldn’t be fully enrolled until late fall or early winter. But Fauci told CNN he expects the enrollment numbers to increase as the study continues. “The first week had very few sites activated,” he said. “As more sites get activated, enr...
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