According to clinical tests, the vaccine provides 100 percent protection against serious diseases.

Moderna’s mRNA-based vaccine is already licensed in Canada and the United States, and the European Medicines Agency decided on January 6. The Facebook page of the Pécs virologists (Gábor Kemenesi and Ferenc Jakab) summarized what was published in the New England Journal of Medicine about the vaccine.

Moderna’s vaccine was written to be one of the leading vaccines, aside from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, and it is planned to produce 1 billion doses in 2021, of which it may also reach Hungary.

Vaccination has started, but when can we throw away the mask?

Mass vaccination of the population in Hungary may begin next year, 4.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may arrive in March-April, and the development and authorization of other vaccines is progressing well. However, it would be premature to talk about when we can return to our previously used lives.

According to the post, the Moderna vaccine, like the Pfizer vaccine in terms of technology and function, produces the peak protein of the virus with our cells after vaccination, thus creating protection. It is easier to store, it stays at minus 20 degrees for 6 months (the Pfizer vaccine requires -80 degrees).

The test was performed on more than 30,000 people, 14,550 people received the vaccine and the rest received placebo. Chronically ill people at high risk for coronavirus (lung and heart disease, severe overweight, diabetes and liver disease, and HIV-infected) were included in the study, as were those older than 65 years.

Those under 18 years of age were not included in the test.

The Moderna Vaccine (mRNA-1273) and What You Need to Know About It The Moderna mRNA-based vaccine is now available in Canada and the US.

Posted by Virology Pécs – Friday, January 1, 2021

Two doses of Moderna vaccine should also be given, 28 days apart. The clinical test found that it provided 94 percent protection against coronavirus for the entire study population, but ruled out serious illness 100 percent. Initial protection develops two weeks after the first vaccination.

No serious post-vaccination side effects have been reported, with redness, swelling, headache, muscle pain, and fever that resolve within 1-3 days. It is not yet known how effective and safe the vaccine is in untested groups (such as those under 18 years of age), what proportion is protected, who received only one vaccine, and whether the vaccine protects against asymptomatic infection and virus transmission.

It is also only in the observation phase that the answer of how long the vaccine provides protection can be answered.


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