FDA approves Moderna Covid vaccine for emergency use week after Pfizer authorized for Americans
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Updated: 19 Dec 2020, 9:42
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MODERNA S Covid-19 vaccine was given emergency authorization by the FDA today as thousands continue to receive the Pfizer jab.
The second coronavirus shot received emergency use authorization (EUA) on Friday and doses will be shipped as soon as this weekend, with the first jabs being rolled out by Monday.
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Donald Trump prematurely said it was approved earlier todayCredit: AFP - Getty
Moderna will begin delivering some 20million doses to the US government by the end of the month with 100million and 125million doses available globally in the first quarter of 2021.
US states complain of dramatic cuts to their vaccine allocation
Row over the distribution of Pfizer drug comes as US regulators give the green light to a second vaccine.
Moderna is the second vaccine to be approved by US regulators
Credit: Joel Saget/AFP
Governors across the US have complained they are not receiving as many doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as they were promised by the Trump administration.
Distribution of the Pfizer vaccine, under the Administration s Operation Warp Speed, began at the beginning of last week.
Governors in at least a dozen states have said their allocation has been slashed, in some cases by as much as 40 per cent.
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Dec 18, 2020 12:01am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
As Canada enters Day 5 of the rollout of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the federal Liberals hold a five per cent lead over the Conservatives, according to the latest poll from Mainstreet Research.
When respondents were asked which party they would vote for if an election were held today, 37.8 per cent of decided and leaning voters said the Liberals, while 33.2 per cent said the Conservatives.
The NDP was third with 13.1 per cent, followed by the Greens with 6.7 per cent and the Bloc Québécois with 4.9 per cent.
Ohio will receive fewer doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in its next shipment than previously promised by the pharmaceutical company.
Ohio received its first full week of the vaccine that was initially promised by the drug maker. But, the state is set to receive 52,800 fewer doses in its second shipment than was previously estimated by the federal government, Melanie Amato, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Health said in an email.
That brings the total number of Pfizer vaccine doses in the next shipment from 123,000 to 70,200, Amato said. That amounts to a nearly 43% decrease in doses to be shipped to Ohio next week.
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