[bawolff]

"The Moderna vaccine is also known as “mRNA-1273”, but appears to lack a brand name other than “Moderna COVID-19 vaccine” which is what it says on the product label"

Anyone else find that really refreshing?

[exabrial]

...Heartbleed, Spectre, Meltdown...

VaxMod? I have no ideas :(

[mhh__]

Having a name for a big CVE is actually quite a good idea because it's much easier to string a narrative together around it to convince people to take it seriously.

Spectre is better than something like "Novel data exfiltration from branch prediction using a cache side-channel, variant 3" or similar.

[exabrial]

Haha totally agree. Much like vaccine nomenclature.

[vmception]

that's because Moderna is the brand, this is their first product and they plan to launch other vaccines under that brand

they'll probably conform to the drugs themselves having brand names eventually like the rest of the industry

[refurb]

It’s not surprising. Desperate need for a vaccine and not enough supply means you don’t really need branding. No doubt it will be branded once Covid is under control.