Moderna never had the actual coronavirus on its premises. It never needed a sample, just the computational sequence of the virus’s RNA. Once Moderna got the sequence, the entire process to construct a candidate vaccine took just two days.21 And in six weeks, Moderna went from having the sequence in their computers to beginning the manufacture of a vaccine to start human testing, in collaboration with the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the team led by Dr. Barney Graham and Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.
