Moderna and Pfizer reveal secret blueprints for virus vaccine trials

Two drug companies that are leading the race to develop coronavirus vaccines bowed to public pressure on Thursday, abandoning their traditional secrecy and releasing comprehensive road maps of how they are evaluating their vaccines.
 

The companies, Moderna and Pfizer, revealed details about how participants are being selected and monitored, the conditions under which the trials could be stopped early if there were problems, and the evidence researchers will use to determine whether people who got the vaccines were protected from Covid-19.
 

Moderna’s study will involve 30,000 participants, and Pfizer’s 44,000.
 

Companies typically share these documents after their studies are complete.