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How China Passed Up a Vaccine Opportunity and Fell Behind Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Bruce Einhorn
(Bloomberg) The call came early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Drew Weissman, an infectious diseases professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in messenger RNA, received a query from a Chinese company interested in using the new technology to make a vaccine against the coronavirus.
mRNA, which effectively turns the body’s cells into tiny vaccine-making factories, has since become the breakout star of the Covid era, underpinning shots made by Moderna Inc. and the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE partnership which have been among the most effective in fighting the disease. Before Covid hit, though, the experimental science had yet to receive regulatory approval for use against any illness let alone against the mysterious respiratory infection.
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Thousands of delegates to China’s high-profile annual political gathering in Beijing have received vaccines developed by China National Biotec Group Co., state media reported.