Moderna Extends Rally With Another Vaccine in the Works

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Moderna President Hopes to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine in Record-Setting Time
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On the heels of its biggest one-day gain Tuesday, Moderna Inc. touched an intraday record after revealing the development of an experimental vaccine for a virus tied to birth defects is advancing faster than expected.

That’s the second piece of good news for the biotech this week, which surged 28% yesterday after revealing that vials of a vaccine for the coronavirus had been shipped to the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for clinical testing.