A Moderna vaccination, illustration – USA Today Network / Sipa USA / SIPA
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will finally not pronounce this Monday around the Moderna vaccine , while the organization had hinted that it could validate it from this Monday, an accelerated decision compared to the date of Wednesday initially planned, due to the urgency facing the coronavirus .
The Moderna vaccine is taken in two doses, a few weeks apart, such as
vaccine Pfizer / Moderna But Moderna’s formula can be kept at – 20 ° C, and not – 70 ° C as for the remedy from Pfizer, which forced the group to develop specific containers for transport.
The United States Drugs Agency (FDA) announced on 18 December which she had granted to this American laboratory an emergency authorization, a week after having done the same with that of Pfizer and BioNTech. The EMA headquarters moved from London to Amsterdam as a consequence of Brexit. 20210104