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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 383, Issue 20, Pages 1920-1931Publisher
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2022483
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- NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda [UM1AI148373, UM1AI148576, UM1AI148684, UM1Al148684-01S1, HHSN272201500002C]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH [UL1 TR002243]
- Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [ZIAAI005152, ZIAAI005047, ZIAAI005125, ZIAAI005159] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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BACKGROUND The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 and spread globally, prompting an international effort to accelerate development of a vaccine. The candidate vaccine mRNA-1273 encodes the stabilized prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. METHODS We conducted a phase 1, dose-escalation, open-label trial including 45 healthy adults, 18 to 55 years of age, who received two vaccinations, 28 days apart, with mRNA-1273 in a dose of 25 mu g, 100 mu g, or 250 mu g. There were 15 participants in each dose group. RESULTS After the first vaccination, antibody responses were higher with higher dose (day 29 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay anti-S-2P antibody geometric mean titer [GMT], 40,227 in the 25-mu g group, 109,209 in the 100-mu g group, and 213,526 in the 250-mu g group). After the second vaccination, the titers increased (day 57 GMT, 299,751, 782,719, and 1,192,154, respectively). After the second vaccination, serum-neutralizing activity was detected by two methods in all participants evaluated, with values generally similar to those in the upper half of the distribution of a panel of control convalescent serum specimens. Solicited adverse events that occurred in more than half the participants included fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site. Systemic adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly with the highest dose, and three participants (21%) in the 250-mu g dose group reported one or more severe adverse events. CONCLUSIONS The mRNA-1273 vaccine induced anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants, and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified. These findings support further development of this vaccine.
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