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Moderna on Friday evening became the second developer of a COVID-19 vaccine to be granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) by the FDA, allowing patients to be dosed with the company’s messenger RNA (mRNA)-based mRNA-1273 just a week after the agency granted the first.
The company said the first doses of mRNA-1273 will be injected into patients next week. Like Pfizer and BioNTech’s BNT162b2, which received an EUA on December 11, mRNA-1273 is a two-dose vaccine. But Moderna’s vaccine is indicated for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older, rather than 16 and older as BNT162b2 is indicated.
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