By Cullen Browder, WRAL presenter / reporter The first coronavirus vaccine trials in the US entering the third and final phase of the Food and Drug Administration are being conducted here in the Triangle. “Really exciting times,” says Dr. Sam Fleishman, medical director of the Cape Fear Valley Health System. …
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The final test of the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine study was launched Monday, with the first of 30,000 US participants beginning to test the experimental immunization developed by the National Institutes of Health and Modern, Inc. Savannah, Georgia, was the first test site to be launched among more than several …
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