Covid-19 vaccine candidate.Moderna had previously said it would exclude people with HIV from the trial.The biotechnology company said Wednesday that it’s “committed to working with all communities who could benefit from our Covid-19 vaccine" and added those with “controlled HIV who are not otherwise immunosuppressed" to the protocols, after talking to government partners.
Moderna said it planned to test the drug in people with HIV in a separate study.“Aren’t we trying to help everybody here?" said Lynda Dee, executive director of AIDS Action Baltimore, who led the advocacy push, noting that people with health conditions are among the most at-risk from the novel coronavirus.“It’s unconscionable to me that people who are going to die from.