Europe’s drug regulator today approved Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine and could get supplies within weeks because of a deal it struck in summer last year. But Britain will miss out on early access to the vaccine because it officially left the EU last week and did not place its own order early enough to get an … Read more
Europe’s drug regulator has today approved Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine and could get supplies within weeks because of a deal it struck in summer last year. But Britain will miss out on early access to the vaccine because it officially left the EU last week and did not place its own order early enough to get … Read more
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday after challenging President Donald Trump during the presidential campaign on his administration’s work on vaccinations. ‘OK, let’s do it,’ she said, as registered nurse Patricia Cummings of the United Medical Center readied the needle. ‘That was easy. Thank you. I barely felt it. I barely felt it.’ … Read more
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday after challenging President Donald Trump during the presidential campaign on his administration’s work on vaccinations. ‘OK, let’s do it,’ she said, as registered nurse Patricia Cummings of the United Medical Center readied the needle. ‘That was easy. Thank you. I barely felt it. I barely felt it.’ … Read more
The first Americans have received Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine after it was approved for emergency use authorization. Just three days after being approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), initial shipments left a distribution center in the Memphis area. Hartford Healthcare, the first healthcare system in Connecticut to get Moderna’s vaccine, received 8,800 doses … Read more
Donald Trump has tweeted in celebration after a second COVID-19 vaccine was made available, with Moderna’s drug being approved by the U.S., in a world first. ‘Congratulations, the Moderna vaccine is now available!’ the president said on Friday night. It is the second coronavirus vaccine authorized in the U.S., exactly one week after Pfizer’s shot … Read more
How does the Moderna vaccine work? It works in a similar way to the jab from Pfizer/BioNTech. Coronavirus is studded with “spike proteins” that it uses to enter human cells. Covid-19 vaccines target this spike protein. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines use synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA), a genetic material that contains information about the spike … Read more
Experts have officially endorsed Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, all but assuring the shot will get the FDA’s emergency approval by the end of the week. FDA experts are meeting today to decide whether to endorse Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency. Agency scientists confirmed that the shot is more than 94 percent effective … Read more
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine could get emergency FDA approval as early as Thursday, Dr Anthony Fauci said Wednesday afternoon. A panel of expert advisors to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will met tomorrow to discuss whether to recommend that the agency authorize the second shot to be given to Americans. ‘Tomorrow, the FDA will hopefully … Read more
US buys ANOTHER 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for $2.6 billion bringing its total stock from the firm to 200 million after the Trump administration turned down its chance to buy extra doses of Pfizer’s shot The US government exercised its option to buy another 100 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine for about … Read more