#US inks $1.5B deal with Moderna for 100M doses of COVID-19 vaccine
“#US inks $1.5B deal with Moderna for 100M doses of COVID-19 vaccine”
August 11, 2020 | 9:21pm
A volunteer receives Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Henry Ford Health System/AFP via Getty Images
With the exception of its deal with AstraZeneca, which offered a lower price per drug in exchange for upfront research and development costs, all the deals price COVID-19 vaccines between $20 to $42 for a two dose course of treatment.
Moderna’s vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, is one of the few that have already advanced to the final stage of testing and is on track to be completed in September, the company said this month.
Moderna’s deal with the U.S. only pays out in full if the drugmaker hits certain unspecific timing benchmarks for vaccine delivery.
The United States has advanced purchase agreements with Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca Plc, Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, and Sanofi SA and GlaxoSmithKline Plc for their respective vaccine candidates.
The agreements would lock in more than 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for the U.S., assuming that the companies involved receive regulatory approval. Some deals also give the United States an option to purchase additional doses.
The U.S. government previously gave Moderna around $1 billion to fund its research efforts, bringing total U.S. funding to around $2.5 billion.
Other countries, including Japan, the United Kingdom and Canada, have forged similar deals with drugmakers.
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