Moderna Gets To Watch And Learn From Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee

US FDA will simultaneously review the vaccines, with Moderna’s advisory committee set a week after Pfizer’s. ACIP emergency meeting scheduled for 1 December with vote likely on distribution priority for health care personnel.

Stone/UK- November 12, 2020: Moderna Inc makes mRNA-1273 experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine jar effective in preventing 90 percent of Covid-19 Coronavirus infections
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine candidate scheduled for advisory committee review

Moderna, Inc. will get to see a dry run of how the US Food and Drug Administration’s advisory committee handles review of COVID-19 vaccine data as the firm prepares for its meeting before the panel.

FDA announced on 30 November that the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBAC) will meet 17 December to...

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