A Vaccine Advance, Buying Live Chickens, and the Failed Return of Martin Shkreli

A roundup of Covid-19 stories we’re reading today

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readMay 18, 2020

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  • U.S. stock futures for the biotech company Moderna soared Monday after the company announced positive results from recent human tests of its coronavirus vaccine, according to the Washington Post. All 45 participants in the study produced antibodies, and eight even produced the neutralizing antibodies thought to be most important for protection. The second trial, which is slated to start soon, will involve 600…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.