The company hopes to eventually add vaccines it is working on for respiratory syncytial virus and other respiratory diseases as an annual shot.
"We believe this is a very large opportunity that is ahead of us, if we could bring to market a high efficacy pan-respiratory annual booster," Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel said during a presentation to update investors on its drugs in development.Moderna and Pfizer Inc and German vaccine partner for BioNTech SE are already expected to reap billions of dollars from COVID-19 booster shots, analysts and healthcare investors said.
Moderna also provided updates on its ongoing mid-stage trial testing its authorized COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 6 months to 11 years old. It is testing a 50-microgram dose of the shot in the pediatric trial involving 4,000 children. Moderna's vaccine, which received an emergency use authorization for two 100-microgram doses for people aged 18 and older in the United States in December, is currently under an FDA review for use in adolescents.
Moderna said dose selection studies for different age groups such as 2 years to less than 6 years, and 6 months to below 2 years old, were still underway.Reporting by Michael Erman in New Jersey and Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli and Bill Berkrot.
The number of deaths will be in the millions soon.
Nope!
Since it should be approved now for fall distribution... It's late. Again.
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