Moderna coronavirus vaccine
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An independent panel of vaccine experts has reviewed data from Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine and will release its recommendations on how to use the vaccine next Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
In an advisory report to the media on next week, WHO said on Friday night, “The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization will make public its interim recommendations to WHO on the use of Moderna COVID-19 (mRNA-1273) vaccine. The recommendations were agreed at the extraordinary meeting of SAGE on January 21 (Thursday). “
Mariangela Simao, WHO’s assistant director general for access to medicines, vaccines and pharmaceuticals, said at a WHO social media event on Wednesday, noting that the SAGE experts had made recommendations for the use of the drug in early January. Pfizer vaccine. “It is meeting pretty soon for another vaccine,” said Simao.