Racing for a Vaccine: Moderna’s Phase 1 Human Trial

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel shares the first human data for a Covid-19 vaccine program. Early results from the study are promising, and the markets agree. Surgeon, author, and The New Yorker staff writer Dr. Atul Gawande has a “Regimen for Reentry” as the United States plans reopening businesses in the wake of the pandemic. Plus, sagas from Silicon Valley: Grubhub spurns an Uber union, Softbank weathers a leadership and monetary loss, and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is taking on big tech (again) via Twitter.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our
0:05.3	podcast Finding a Cure. Moderna's big news on the race for a coronavirus vaccine,
0:11.2	CEO Stefan Bonsell, on the early but exciting human results from the biotech's phase one trial.
0:16.7	This is a very exciting data.
0:18.9	It's still interim data so the phase one is still ongoing.
0:22.0	We could not be happier.
0:23.2	New Yorker writer and surgeon Dr Atul Gowanday has a regimen for social reentry
0:28.2	but it won't be easy. The challenge is that our culture is about freedom versus safety. Leave me alone or keep me safe. It's all
0:36.2	about what other people need to do. And it's another Silicon Valley story, a spurned union,
0:41.6	a high-profile exit, and a fiery
0:43.7	tweets from the hill.
0:45.1	It's Monday, May 18, 2020, Squack Pot begins right now.
0:50.2	Good Monday morning, everybody.
0:51.5	Welcome to Squawk Box here on
0:52.8	see mrs. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross
0:55.9	Sorkin.
0:56.9	First up on today's podcast, a glimmer of hope as the world battles the coronavirus. So far nearly 90,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. An ongoing concern about its lasting effects on our lives has spooked investors. According to Fed Chair Jay Powell speaking on 60 minutes,
1:15.0	the U.S. economy may not bounce back
1:17.0	until there is a virus vaccine available.
1:19.0	In the long run, and even in the medium run,
1:22.0	you wouldn't want to bet against the American
1:23.9	economy this economy will recover it may take a while it may take a period of time it could
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