These 2 stories from CNBC.

A second city in China is now on lock down.

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HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Biotech firm Moderna is working on a vaccine for China’s deadly coronavirus
PUBLISHED WED, JAN 22 20206:27 AM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 22 20209:09 AM EST
Terri Cullen

        Moderna told CNBC it is working with U.S. government health agencies to develop a vaccine for the current strain of coronavirus that has killed nine and infected hundreds more in China.
        The biotech company is working with the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the Vaccine Research Center on a potential vaccine, the company said in a filing.

Moderna on Tuesday told CNBC it is working with U.S. government health agencies to develop a vaccine for the current strain of coronavirus that has killed nine and infected hundreds more in China.
Shares of Moderna surged 7% in premarket trading following the report.

The biotech company is working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) on a potential vaccine, the company said in a Securities and Exchange filing.
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told CNBC’s Becky Quick his company is working with the NIH to develop the vaccine. “They’ve produced a cancer vaccine in 40 days; using the same tech to do this quickly,” Quick tweeted.

Moderna Therapeutics CEO Stephane Bancel tells me his company is working with the NIH to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus hitting China. They’ve produced a cancer vaccine in 40 days; using the same tech to do this quickly.

3:21 AM - Jan 22, 2020

“Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology could serve as a rapid and flexible platform that may be useful in responding to newly emerging viral threats, such as the novel coronavirus,” the company said in its SEC filing. “While we have not previously tested this rapid response capability, Moderna confirms that we are working with NIH/NIAID/VRC on a potential vaccine response to the current public health emergency.”
Moderna, founded in 2010, is using Amazon’s cloud platform for more than a dozen drug candidates in the pipeline, with seven going through trial studies, according to Amazon Web Services. The cloud service is used to help speed up the amount of time it takes to get the drugs from research to clinical trials.
—CNBC’s Becky Quick and Tyler Clifford contributed to this report.

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WORLD NEWS JANUARY 22, 2020 / 6:22 PM / UPDATED 11 MINUTES AGO
China locks down two cities at epicenter of virus outbreak

Yawen Chen, Se Young Lee

BEIJING (Reuters) - China put on lockdown on Thursday two cities at the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected nearly 600, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic.
Health officials fear the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel at home and abroad during week-long holidays for the Lunar New Year, which begins on Saturday.
The previously unknown virus strain is believed to have emerged late last year from illegally traded wildlife at an animal market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Most transport in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, was suspended on Thursday morning and people were told not to leave. Hours later, state media in neighboring Huanggang, a city of some 6 million people, said it was imposing a similar lock down.