The European Union’s medicines regulator gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna’s COVID-19 shot, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the battle to tame the coronavirus as itThe approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee — which now goes for rubber-stamping by the EU’s executive commission — comes amid high rates of infections in many EU countries and strong criticism of the slow pace of vaccinations across the region...
“This vaccine provides us with another tool to overcome the current emergency,” said Emer Cooke, executive director of the EMA. “It is a testament to the efforts and commitment of all involved that we have this second positive vaccine recommendation just short of a year since the pandemic was declared” by the World Health Organization.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the approval and added in a tweet: “Now we are working at full speed to approve it & make it available in the EU.”. Both the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine require giving people two shots. Ahead of the meeting on the Moderna vaccine, the European regulator said in a tweet that its experts were “working hard to clarify all outstanding issues with the company.” It did not elaborate on what those issues were. Moderna also declined to comment.
I just want my vaccine ASAP no matter the company its from.
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