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FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for a Second COVID-19 Vaccine
Of course, the second vaccine was held up to a review process just like the first one. Read more about it inside.
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On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for a second COVID-19 vaccine: the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This new vaccine will soon be available for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.
This is the world's first authorization of the Moderna vaccine and will see doses arriving for use on Monday. The U.S. is currently recording more than 3,000 COVID-related deaths a day.
“With the availability of two vaccines now for the prevention of COVID-19, the FDA has taken another crucial step in the fight against this global pandemic that is causing vast numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States each day,” said in a statement FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D.