What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma

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Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War?

The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America?

A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”?

That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox facing Moderna, the covid-19 shot maker whose plans for next-generation mRNA vaccines against flus and emerging pathogens have been dashed by vaccine skeptics in…

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