In his­toric vote, mR­NA vac­cines go 2 and 0 as FDA ex­perts unan­i­mous­ly back Mod­er­na's Covid-19 vac­cine

Come Sat­ur­day, the US will like­ly have two Covid-19 vac­cines.

The FDA’s ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee on vac­cines vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly Thurs­day — with one ab­sten­tion — to rec­om­mend an emer­gency use au­tho­riza­tion for Mod­er­na’s mR­NA-based Covid-19 shot, set­ting the agency up to like­ly is­sue the EUA on Fri­day. The agency does not have to lis­ten to the com­mit­tee but usu­al­ly does.

“The ev­i­dence that has been stud­ied in great de­tail on this vac­cine high­ly out­weighs any is­sues that we’ve seen,” Stan­ford in­fec­tious dis­ease pe­di­a­tri­cian Hay­ley Gans said. “And I think re­al­ly sup­ports us be­ing able, with the pan­dem­ic, move for­ward and fi­nal­ly pro­vide a safe and ef­fec­tive way of get­ting to herd im­mu­ni­ty.”

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