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Moderna's vaccine does not require two doses, they administered two doses as part of their phase 2 trials to test for adverse reactions. They are only doing a single 100 µg dose for their phase 3 trials, and it's likely that will be the dose in the final vaccine:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/moderna-finalizes-desi...

Moderna has plans to be able to manufacturer 1 billion doses a year. AstraZeneca has announced plans to manufacturer 2 billion doses a year, with plans to produce 300 million doses by the end of 2020. The Chinese firms Sinopharm and Sinovac are ramping up their production right now, and will produce 200-300 million doses by the end of 2020. With all the other firms developing a vaccine it seems highly likely we could produce enough vaccine to vaccinate the entire population of the Earth in a single year. Now distributing and administering that much vaccine is another story, but manufacturing will not likely be the bottle neck.



They absolutely need 2 doses. That is how they have been conducting all their tests. Read the last line of the article you linked.

Also based on the results from the study, two doses are necessary because one dose didn’t elicit a strong enough result but two did.




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