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November 30, 2020 03:46 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/30/21726554/moderna-covid-vaccine-fda-pfizer-biontech
Moderna to ask FDA for COVID-19 vaccine authorization
Moderna plans to file for authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine today, after the final analysis of its clinical trial data confirmed that it is safe and 94 percent effective. It is the second company to submit COVID-19 vaccine data to the Food and Drug Administration, after Pfizer and BioNTech submitted their data earlier this month.
In a press release, Moderna said that there were 196 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 reported in the 30,000-person trial. Of those cases, 185 developed in people who received a placebo, and 11 cases developed in people who took the vaccine. There were 30 cases of severe disease in the trial, and all of them were in the placebo group — indicating that the vaccine can prevent the most dangerous forms of...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/30/21726554/moderna-covid-vaccine-fda-pfizer-biontech
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