Prognosis
Moderna Backtracks to Open Covid Vaccine Trial to Those With HIV
- Advocates pressured Moderna to expand criteria in recent weeks
- Pfizer also lobbied to open vaccine trials to those with HIV
Chemicals sit inside a refrigerator at the Moderna Therapeutics Inc. lab in Cambridge, Mass.
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After pressure from advocates in recent weeks, Moderna Inc. will now allow individuals living with HIV to be part of a late-stage clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate.
Moderna had previously said it would exclude people with HIV from the trial.