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An expedited emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine by the American pharmaceutical company Moderna was supported on Thursday by an advisory council of experts from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It will be the second Covid-19 vaccine to be used in a nationwide vaccination campaign launched Monday after the FDA also approved an accelerated vaccine last week by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech.
Twenty members of the FDA expert panel voted yes, no against, and one abstention accepted the proposal to allow the supervisor to authorize the use of the mRNA-1273 vaccine. Based on this, FDA chief Stephen Hahn is expected to issue a license for Moderna soon, which according to US media reports could start across the country next Monday.
The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine was cleared by the FDA last Friday, a day after the expert panel endorsed it.
However, pharmacovigilance now warned Thursday that it would change its recommendations for the use of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine after two people vaccinated in Alaska had severe allergic reactions, one of which had to be hospitalized.
“The person has received the appropriate medical intervention and fortunately is recovering,” said Doran Fink, deputy director of the FDA’s department of vaccines, at the panel meeting. The mass vaccination campaign could begin on Monday in the United States most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when the death toll from the epidemic has already exceeded 300,000 and the number of newly identified infected people, dying from the illness and more hospitalized. decide.
According to the latest summary from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, 247,403 infected people and 3,656 deaths were registered in the country on Wednesday. The previous record value of 233,133 new cases and 3,306 deaths was reported five days earlier.
To date, a total of 16.9 million people in the 330 million countries have been diagnosed with the new type of coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2), and more than 307,500 people have died from the disease since the outbreak, more than in any other country.
(MTI)
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