Dr. Fauci says he's 'cautiously optimistic' about COVID-19 vaccine trials

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• On Monday, pharmaceutical company Moderna announced encouraging results from its first human trial of a potential coronavirus vaccine.
• "The question is: Was it immediately safe? Clearly it was," Dr. Anthony Fauci said of the prospective vaccine. "But, importantly, it induced the kind of response that you would predict would be protective against the virus."
• Several companies are working to develop a preventative solution for the coronavirus. On Thursday, the US government agreed to pay British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca up to $1.2 billion to secure 300 million doses of its experimental vaccine.
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Researchers developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus have already achieved a milestone that has eluded colleagues working for decades on a vaccine for HIV, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday.

Earlier this week, the biotech company Moderna, which has partnered with the National Institutes of Health, announced early findings from the first phase of trials for a COVID-19 vaccine, which was tested on 45 human volunteers.

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