Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | One of Editor & Publisher’s ‘10 That Do It Right 2020’ | 41°/ 29° Forecast, Page 25 $1 CITY/BURBS $2 ELSEWHERE | LATE SPORTS FINAL CHICAGO HOPE VIKINGS 19, BEARS 13 Local researchers involved in testing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘excited’ it’s showing promise LAURAN NEERGAARD AND BRETT CHASE REPORT, PAGE 2 Moderna’s vaccine is being studied in 30,000 volunteers NAM Y. HUH/AP who received either the real vaccination or a placebo. AP FILE PHOTO FOLES CARTED OFFAS BEARS DROP FOURTH STRAIGHT IN SPORTS Aldermen pitch 10% cap on third-party delivery fees to help ailing restaurants FRAN SPIELMAN REPORTS, PAGE 8 GETTY IMAGES PLUS: CHICAGOANS KEEP SHOPPING — AND STORE SHELVES Virtual tribute concert STAY STOCKED — AS NEW STAY-AT-HOME ADVISORY BEGINS for late Justice Ginsburg ANTHONY VAZQUEZ/SUN-TIMES MANNY RAMOS REPORTS, PAGE 9 a decidedly Chicago affair ENTERTAINMENT, PAGES 26-27 2 | Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | The Hardest-Working Paper in America | suntimes.com TOP NEWS — news that puts both companies 2020. Pfizer and its German partner on track to seek permission within BioNTech expect to have about 50 weeks for emergency use in the U.S. million doses globally by year’s end. Hundreds of patients are being Moderna’s vaccine, created with LOCAL RESEARCHERS studied at the University of Illinois the National Institutes of Health, is Chicago and University of Chicago being studied in 30,000 volunteers as part of the large trial. who received either the real vacci- Local researchers said they were nation or a dummy shot. On Sun- ‘EXCITED’MODERNA encouraged by the early results an- day, an independent monitoring nounced by Moderna on Monday. board broke the code to examine 95 “I’m terribly excited,” U. of C. re- infections that were recorded start- searcher Dr. Kathleen Mullane said ing two weeks after volunteers’ sec- COVID-19 VACCINE in an interview. “Everyone is tired ond dose — and discovered all but of isolation, tired of not seeing their five illnesses occurred in partici- families, not able to travel. The pants who got the placebo. health care system is exhausted.” The study is continuing, and TESTED HERE SHOWS The two Chicago hospitals set Moderna acknowledged the pro- out to recruit 1,000 patients but tection rate might change as more ended up enrolling less than half COVID-19 infections are detected EARLY SUCCESS that number. They did, however, and added to the calculations. Also, meet a goal of attracting a high per- it’s too soon to know how long pro- centage of minority participants. tection lasts. Both cautions apply to The U. of C., for instance, recruited Pfizer’s vaccine as well. This photo illustration about one third Black, a third Lati- But Moderna’s independent shows a syringe and a no and a third Asian volunteers for monitors reported some additional, vial with the logo of U.S. its part of the study, Mullane said. promising tidbits: All 11 severe CO- biotech firm Moderna. Dr. Stephen Hoge, Moderna’s VID-19 cases were among placebo JOEL SAGET/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES president, welcomed the “really im- recipients, and there were no sig- portant milestone” but said having nificant safety concerns. similar results from two different The main side effects were fa- companies is what’s most reassuring. tigue, muscle aches and injection- “That should give us all hope that site pain after the vaccine’s second actually a vaccine is going to be able dose, at rates that Hoge character- to stop this pandemic and hopefully ized as more common than with flu getusbacktoourlives,”Hogesaid. shots but on par with others such “It won’t be Moderna alone that as shingles vaccine. solves this problem. It’s going to re- Moderna shares rocketed high- quire many vaccines” to meet the er on the announcement and ap- global demand, he added. peared to be headed for an all-time Avaccine can’t come fast highMonday. TheCambridge, Mas- enough, as virus cases topped 11 sachusetts, company’s vaccine is million in the U.S. over the weekend among 11 candidates in late-stage — 1 million of them recorded in just testing around the world, four of the past week. The pandemic has them in huge studies in the U.S. killed more than 1.3 million people The strong results were a sur- worldwide, more than 245,000 of prise. Scientists have warned for them in the U.S. months that any COVID-19 shot Still, if the Food and Drug Ad- may be only as good as flu vaccines, ministration allows emergency use which are about 50% effective. of Moderna’s or Pfizer’s candidates, BY LAURAN NEERGAARD in Chicago and across the country, pears to be 94.5% effective, accord- there will be limited, rationed sup- Lauran Neergaard is an Associ- AND BRETT CHASE provide strong protection, a dash of ing to preliminary data from the plies before the end of the year. Both ated Press reporter. Brett Chase’s For the second time this month, hope against the grim backdrop of company’s still ongoing study. A require people to get two shots, sev- reporting for the Sun-Times on the there’s promising news from a CO- coronavirus surges in the U.S. and week ago, competitor Pfizer Inc. eral weeks apart. Moderna expects environment and public health is VID-19 vaccine candidate: Mod- around the world. announced its own COVID-19 vac- to have about 20 million doses, ear- made possible by a grant from The erna said Monday its shots, tested Moderna said its vaccine ap- cine appeared similarly effective marked for the U.S., by the end of Chicago Community Trust. 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CORRECTIONS: In an article in Monday’s edition about the Adler Planetarium, Andrew Johnston’s name was misspelled. Also, the planetarium still owns its last Zeiss projector, which was dismantled in 2010. suntimes.com | The Hardest-Working Paper in America | Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | 3 Family Caregiving CELEBRATE FAMILY CAREGIVERS AROUND CHICAGO. This November, AARP Chicago is celebrating National Family Caregivers Month with public art pieces that honor the 1.5 million individuals in Illinois who provide daily, loving care to the older adults in our communities. For more information on the mural locations, and to see the portraits and stories of those featured, visit www.aarp.org/chicago adno=STM000111636801 4 | Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | The Hardest-Working Paper in America | suntimes.com TOP NEWS OBAMA, BY THE BOOK In 1st volume of memoir,‘A Promised Land,’ex-prez reflects on Rev. Wright controversy,‘issue of Black folks and the police’ LYNN SWEET D.C. DECODER [email protected] | @lynnsweet ASHINGTON — The Donald Trump presidency was unfolding W as Barack Obama wrote, on a yel- low legal pad, his presidential memoir, “A Promised Land,” to be released Tuesday, as his vice president, Joe Biden, is poised to be the next president and restore the norms Trump destroyed. Within a few pages of the 700-page mem- oir — the first of two volumes — the Hawaii- born Obama, a young community organizer, is in Chicago, the city that “changed the arc of my life.” That we knew. For the first time, Obama writes about Former President Obama, the controversy that almost derailed his run pictured here campaigning for president and reflects on the incendi- for Joe Biden in November, ary remarks of his then-pastor, the Rev. publishes his presidential Jeremiah Wright. Here are some takeaways memoir,“A Promised Land,” from the Obama book: on Tuesday. GETTY IMAGES On picking Joe Biden to be his VP “Joe’s enthusiasm hadits downside.In About a year later, an ABC News report in Washington, “pronounced America racist a huge drop in my support among white a town filled with people who like to hear with clips of sermons Wright gave — in one at its core,” Obama broke from him and voters, bigger than would come from any themselves talk, Joe had no peer. ... His lack he said, “Not God bless America, God damn rescued his primary bid in a March 18, 2008, single event during the eight years of my of a filter periodically got him in trouble, as America” — threat- speech in Philadelphia, addressing race and presidency.