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Originally Posted by Sooner or later

"We have never tried an mRNA vaccine in humans before."

False. This is the first mRNA vaccine that has been approved. They have been tried and tested in earlier trials.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-positive-interim-phase-1-clinical-data

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27, 2017 — Moderna Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company that is pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics™ to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announcedpositive interim data from an ongoing Phase 1 study of mRNA-1440, an mRNA infectious disease vaccine against avian H10N8 influenza, demonstrating mRNA-1440 induced high levels of immunogenicity, and was safe and well tolerated. The findings were published online today in the journal Molecular Therapy.

Moderna is conducting a Phase 1 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalating study to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of mRNA-1440 against H10N8 influenza in healthy adult subjects. H10N8 is a subtype of the influenza A virus, for which there are no approved vaccines.

This is interesting. ^

31 subjects (23 of whom received mRNA-1440 and eight of whom received placebo)

Of course trial subjects are most always cherry picked.