You know the attendees of an international vaccine conference are on edge when the head of Moderna’s U.S. medical division spends half an hour on stage debunking conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccines.
No, research has not found a link between mRNA vaccines and cancer, Wendy Sohn, who oversees the Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company’s vaccine strategies, said in her presentation. No, Operation Warp Speed didn’t skip steps when it came to safety testing the Covid-19 vaccines. No, mRNA vaccines do not integrate into the human genome.
“The weight of the data needs to be weighed in making policy decisions,” said Sohn.