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Recommendation paves way for FDA authorization of Moderna Covid vaccine in US
- Advisory committee recommends authorizing second vaccine
- More than 300,000 Americans have died amid ‘third wave’
An advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended the agency authorize a second Covid-19 vaccine, this one developed by Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The recommendation paves the way for the FDA to give emergency approval for a second highly effective vaccine to be used in the US. That approval could come by the end of the week. An FDA analysis found Moderna’s vaccine is more than 94% effective at preventing Covid-19 in a trial of more than 30,000 participants.
Read the original article at The Guardian