EMA Brings Forward Moderna Vaccine Decision Date

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This week has seen two key decisions by the European Medicines Agency designed to speed up the availability of COVID-19 vaccines in the EU.

Vials and syringe with Moderna Inc logo
The EMA is speeding up its decision on the Moderna vaccine • Source: Shutterstock

The European Medicines Agency has brought forward by six days the date of the meeting at which its drug evaluation committee, the CHMP, is expected to make a recommendation on the approval of Moderna, Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273. This is the second of two such decisions taken by the agency this week.

A meeting on the Moderna vaccine had originally been scheduled for 12 January, but the EMA said that in view...

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