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COVID-19: Moderna vaccine 94.5% effective against virus

Moderna Inc's vaccine has been reported to be 94.5% effective as it prevented virtually all symptomatic cases of Covid-19 during trial.

William Ukpe

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Pharmaceutical company, Moderna Inc., says its Covid-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective in treating coronavirus, after preliminary analysis of a large late-stage clinical trial.

Moderna disclosed this today in a report by Bloomberg, as it joins other companies including Pfizer in reporting above 90% effectiveness of a vaccine for the global pandemic.

Bloomberg reports that Moderna’s vaccine comes from testing of 30,000 volunteers and “prevented virtually all symptomatic cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“The thing that got me the most excited today was the severe disease,” Chief Executive Officer, Stephane Bancel said. “That for me is a game-changer.”
Moderna also disclosed that it forecasts emergency authorization based on the test results and also expects to drop the final data later this month.
They have received $955 million from the U.S. Operation Warp Speed program to develop its vaccine, with the US government agreeing to also pay up to $1.53 billion to purchase its vaccines. Pfizer agreed to a deal of up to $2 billion with the US Government for its own vaccine.
Moderna shares were up 12% in the US equity pre-market.

What you should know 

Nairametrics reported last week that Pfizer Inc disclosed that its experimental vaccine, which it jointly developed with BioNTech was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19, based on initial data from a large study, in the ongoing phase 3 trials.

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The European Union finalized a deal to buy up to 300 million doses of the ground-breaking coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.

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  1. Bob

    Where is the us? Europe seems to have bought most of the doses and is going to start giving it. We need to get moving

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