Moderna to request for vaccine authorization in US, Europe

| Dec 01, 2020, 09:32:05 AM | TOI.in
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Moderna Inc will apply for US and European emergency authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine on Monday. Full results from a late-stage study has shown it was 94.1% effective with no serious safety concerns. The vaccine's efficacy rate was consistent across age, race, ethnicity and gender demographics. It also had a 100% success rate in preventing severe cases of a disease that has killed nearly 1.5 million people. The filing sets Moderna's product up to be the second vaccine likely to receive US emergency use authorization this year. A shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech which had a 95% efficacy rate also received emergency use authorization.

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