Approval of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine comes after the European Union approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.AMSTERDAM — The European Union’s medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.
in many EU countries and strong criticism of the slow pace of vaccinations across the region of some 450 million people.with another tool to overcome the current emergency,” said Emer Cooke, Executive Director of 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 WHO.”The United States, Canada and Israel have already approved use of the Moderna vaccine.
Both Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s shots are mRNA vaccines, made with a groundbreaking new technology. They don’t contain any coronavirus – meaning they cannot cause infection. Instead, they use a piece of genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spike protein on the surface of the virus, ready to attack if the real thing comes along.
The EU officially began giving out Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination shots on Dec. 27, but the speed of each nation's inoculation program has varied widely. France vaccinated around 500 people in the first week, while Germany vaccinated 200,000. The Dutch were only beginning to give out vaccine shots Wednesday, the last EU nation to start doing so.
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