Moderna COVID-19 vaccine makes it on WHO Emergency Use Listing As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take a fearsome toll on human health, pharmaceutical companies, both old and new, raced to develop a safe and effective vaccine against the pathogen responsible, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Among the first to receive emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was the Moderna vaccine. Moderna is a pioneering firm in the area of messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines. Using this platform, it ha...