US President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Friday that the covid-19 vaccine from the American laboratory Moderna has been approved.
The Modern Vaccine has passed overwhelmingly. The distribution will start immediately “, the head of the White House wrote on Twitter.
A decision by the US Food and Drug Administration on the vaccine was expected on Friday, a day after a committee of experts recommended its approval.
Vice President Mike Pence, who received an injection of the Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine minutes after Trump’s announcement, said that the formal authorization of the Moderna product is still awaited.
“We have one, and maybe in a few hours, two safe and effective coronavirus vaccines,” he said. “When it is approved, which we hope for later today, we will be able to deliver vaccines across the country next week,” he added.
The FDA considered the Modern vaccine safe and effective in a summary of data published this week.
The analysis confirmed an average efficacy of 94.1%. The United States government has ordered 200 million doses of vaccine from Moderna and 100 million from Pfizer / BioNtech.