The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine.
The FDA said in a statement, late on Friday, that the emergency use authorization “allows the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the US for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.” “With the availability of two vaccines now for the prevention of COVID-19, the FDA has taken another crucial step in the fight against this global pandemic that is causing vast numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States each day,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
For his part, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar tweeted “authorization of
Modernaآ‘s vaccine means we can accelerate the vaccination of frontline healthcare workers and Americans in long-term-care facilities, and ultimately bring a faster end to this pandemic.”
Furthermore, Trump tweeted “Congratulations, the Moderna vaccine is now available!” Last
week, the FDA issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first coronavirus vaccine,
allowing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the US.
Source-KUNA