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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines are currently being distributed across the U.S.
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Moderna’s
chief medical officer said Monday that the company expects that its Covid-19 vaccine should provide protection from the virus for a year or more.
Speaking Monday afternoon at a health-care investor conference hosted by
J.P. Morgan,
Moderna (ticker: MRNA) Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks said that the company will be tracking early recipients of the vaccine to try to determine how long the initial two-dose regimen will be effective.
“From what we’ve seen so far, I think our expectation is that the vaccination should last you at least a year,” Zaks said. “We have to follow people until we see the year. We’ll try and boost some of them to see how well a boost works.” ....

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