Trump Announces US-Approved Moderna Vaccine – Salud

President Donald Trump confirmed on Twitter on Friday that the COVID-19 vaccine from the US Moderna laboratory has been approved.

“Moderna’s vaccine overwhelmingly approved. Distribution will begin immediately”, tweeted the head of the White House.

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A decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the vaccine was expected this Friday, one day after a committee of experts recommended its approval.

The president also addressed “Europe and other parts of the world hard hit by the virus from China: particularly Germany, France, Spain and Italy” and assured them that “vaccines are on the way”.

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Moderna filed a request to the FDA in late November for “emergency use authorization” of its mRNA-1273 vaccine against the coronavirus. The company previously stated that during the third-phase clinical trials of its vaccine, which involved 30,000 volunteers, this had shown an efficacy of 94.1%, while the efficacy of the drug against severe forms of the disease is 100%.

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