{"id":1790,"date":"2020-11-30T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:52:54","slug":"moderna-ready-to-ask-fda-for-covid-19-vaccine-emergency-use-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"Moderna ready to ask FDA for COVID-19 vaccine Emergency Use Authorization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced Monday<\/a> that it\u2019s ready to ask the Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to distribute its COVID-19 vaccine.\u00a0 The request is scheduled to come today, according to a company statement.\u00a0 Moderna will also ask European regulators for equivalent approval.\u00a0 Moderna\u2019s statement says the FDA is expected to consider the request on December 17.\u00a0 That means if an EUA is granted, vaccine distribution could begin before the end of the year.\u00a0 Pfizer announced last week that they had asked the FDA for an EUA to begin distributing their vaccine, with the FDA scheduled to consider the request December 10 and distribution set to begin with 24 hours of an EUA being granted.\u00a0

Whenever a vaccine becomes available, those likely to be vaccinated first will include health care workers, first responders, the elderly and others most at risk of infection.\u00a0 Both Moderna and Pfizer say phase 3 human trials have shown their coronavirus vaccines to be better than 90% effective. \u00a0The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday to discuss who will get the vaccine first.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced Monday that it\u2019s ready to ask the Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to distribute its COVID-19 vaccine.\u00a0 The request is scheduled to come today, according to a company statement.\u00a0 Moderna will also ask European regulators for equivalent approval.\u00a0 Moderna\u2019s statement says the FDA is expected to consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/skynews-moderna-vaccine_5174034.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}