CureVac disappoints in COVID vaccine trial
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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After a slew of wildly successful vaccine trials, this week marked a more underwhelming result. The third mRNA vaccine to complete phase three trials, developed by CureVac, is just 47% effective at staving off disease according to preliminary data. This is a stark contrast with previous mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer BioNtec which returned around twice that efficacy in their trials. In this episode of Coronapod, we ask why the CureVac vaccine has faltered, and what this might mean for the future of the pandemic and mRNA vaccine development.
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| 1:42.4 | So we're going to talk about yet another vaccine trial this week that's just come out. |
| 1:46.5 | It's from CureVAC. But this one stands out because it has not delivered amazing results in the way that we've become a bit of custom to. ALE, can you |
| 1:52.9 | tell me a little bit about what's recently come out from CureVac? Yeah, I think at this point, |
| 1:56.8 | everyone just kind of waits on things to move through phase three and read out and then you just |
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