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The American pharmaceutical company reported that the full results had confirmed a high efficacy of the coronavirus vaccine, estimated at 94.1% of.
The firm thus joined US-based Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, which last week requested similar approval of their vaccine and They predict that it could get a green light in the United States after December 10.
If the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirms that Moderna’s product is safe and effective, the first of two doses of the vaccine could be given to millions of Americans by mid-December.
“We believe that our vaccine will provide a powerful new tool that could change the course of this pandemic“Said Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel.
Moderna’s product is being studied in a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants in United States.
The company expects to have about 20 million doses of the vaccine, called mRNA-1273, available in the United States by the end of the year. And in 2021, it hopes to manufacture between 500 and 1 billion doses globally.
But to be successful, vaccines must overcome misinformation and mistrustThe president of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), Francesco Rocca, warned this Monday.
“According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins University in 67 countries, acceptance of a vaccine decreased significantly in most countries between July and October, “said Rocca.
Reasons for concern
The hope raised by vaccines contrasts with the concern caused by the spread of a pandemic which, according to an AFP balance, has left more than 1.46 million deaths and about 62.8 million infections worldwide.
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the alarm on Monday given the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Brazil and Mexico, during a press conference in Geneva.
“I think Brazil should take it very, very seriously. It’s very, very worrying “, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned about the evolution in the South American country, whose president, Jair Bolsonaro, denies the seriousness of this disease.
Brazil, with 212 million inhabitants, it is the second country most mourned by the pandemic, with more than 170,000 deaths, behind the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Given the rebound in cases and deaths in his state, the governor of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, announced on Monday the resumption of measures to avoid crowds.
Regarding Mexico, Ghebreyesus indicated that it is “In bad shape” with a sharp increase in deaths and cases. The coronavirus has claimed at least 105,655 lives and infected more than 1.1 million people in the country of 126 million inhabitants.
On the other hand, the head of the WHO promised on Monday that he will do everything possible to clarify the origin of the coronavirus, rejecting accusations that the UN agency is too accommodating to China, where the virus was first detected in late 2019.
Fauci’s warning
In the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic, with more than 267,000 deaths from COVID-19, the immunologist Anthony Fauci, advisor to the White House during the pandemic, voiced his fears after millions of people flocked for Thanksgiving.
“We may see how an increase (in infections) adds to the increase that we are already experiencing“In two or three weeks, Fauci told CNN. “We don’t want to scare people, but that’s the reality.”
In that context, another White House adviser, Scott Atlas, criticized for disdaining the importance of masks during the pandemic, announced his resignation on Monday.
The increase in cases in the country led some states like California to impose new restrictions. San Francisco enacted a curfew, and Los Angeles banned most public and private gatherings starting Monday.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the region where the virus has been deadliest, more than 12.9 million cases and some 447,000 deaths have been registered.
Europe, for its part, continues to struggle to reduce the daily number of deaths and infections with a variety of formulas after the deaths reached 400,000 this weekend.
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