The FDA is probably going to approve another coronavirus vaccine this week

[Andy Meek]

• The FDA appears likely to approve a second coronavirus vaccine later this week, this one from Moderna following the emergency use authorization approval that Pfizer received a few days ago.
• That's according to Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the head of the federal government's Operation Warp Speed vaccine program.
• Moderna's coronavirus vaccine has been found to have an efficacy rate of about 94%, and Dr. Slaoui said the hope is to have 100 million people immunized through the first quarter of 2021.

Days after the FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the first shipments of which have started to be delivered around the country and even injected into the first recipients, the federal agency is now poised to approve a second coronavirus vaccine this week.

That's according to Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who heads up the federal government's Operation Warp Speed vaccine program and who also predicted during an interview with Fox News Sunday that Moderna's vaccine "likely would be approved by Friday." This is the vaccine candidate from Moderna that the company disclosed in November has an efficacy rate of 94%, which is to say that 94 out of 100 people who are vaccinated with Moderna's mRNA vaccine will be protected against COVID-19. Additionally, inoculated people who do catch COVID-19 will not experience a severe coronavirus infection, according to Moderna’s announcement about the trial results.

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