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COVID-19 vaccine frontrunner Moderna Inc. has been hit by reports that the start of its Phase III trial could be set back.

The 30,000-patient trial of Moderna’s mRNA-based candidate MRNA-1273 was expected to start next week but is understood to have been...

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