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WHO gives emergency use listing to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine – Sylvan Lake News
Many countries without their own advanced medical regulatory and assessment offices rely on the WHO listing to decide whether to use vaccines
The World Health Organization has given the go-ahead for the emergency use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The mRNA vaccine from the U.S. manufacturer joins vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson in receiving the WHO’s emergency use listing.
Similar approvals for China’s Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines are expected in the coming days and weeks, WHO has said.
The greenlight for Moderna’s vaccine, announced late Friday, took many months because of delays that WHO faced in getting…
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