I requested an emergency permit from the United States and Europe
"Moderna": Our Corona vaccine is 100% effective in preventing severe cases
One of the corona tests in Washington.
A.F.B.
The American company Moderna announced that it is submitting conditional licensing applications for its emerging anti-corona virus (Covid-19) vaccine in the United States and Europe, after the full results of clinical trials confirmed the high effectiveness of its vaccine, which reached 94.1%, confirming at the same time achieving a success rate of 100% in prevention. Severe cases.
Moderna’s chief medical officer, Tal Sachs, said: “We think we have a very effective vaccine.
We now have the data that prove this, and we expect to play a major role in overcoming this epidemic. ”
The company reported that 196 participants were in the large clinical trial, and none of the vaccinated participants showed any severe form of the disease.
The company indicated that the vaccinated volunteers had no serious side effects, stressing that the vaccine did not cause any major safety concerns.
The registration places the "Moderna" product to be the second vaccine that is likely to obtain an emergency use permit from the United States this year, after the vaccine developed by the alliance of the American "Pfizer" and the German "Biontech", which has achieved an effective rate of 95%.
In addition, the United States is preparing to deal with the results of Thanksgiving Day, during which millions of Americans have traveled throughout the country, which may lead to an increase in the number of Corona infections in a country whose hospitals are overwhelmed with epidemic patients.
The director of the American Institute of Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, warned of a "big surge" in the spread of the Corona virus, after millions of Americans traveled during Thanksgiving.
"I want to be honest with the American people," the director general of the public health sector in the United States, Jerome Adams, told US Fox News: "I want to be honest with the American people, things will get worse in the coming weeks."
"We are preparing to enter a period of similar acceleration to the outbreak of the epidemic after the Thanksgiving holiday, with cases increasing three, four or 10 times in the country," the White House cell coordinator to combat "Corona", Debra Birx, told the American "CBS" network.
The United States recorded, the day before yesterday, 140,651 thousand new infections and 822 deaths within 24 hours only, with the virus, and the number of deaths resulting from the epidemic in the United States is more than 266 thousand, which is the highest in the world, while the country recorded a total of 13.3 million injuries.
And many American media reported that a huge logistical operation had been launched to transport the vaccines and doses of the companies "Pfizer" and "Biontech" from Belgium to the United States.
The new Corona virus has caused the death of one million 460 thousand and 18 people in the world since the outbreak of the epidemic, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official sources. yesterday.
• Warnings of a doubling of injuries in the United States after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Follow our latest local and sports news, and the latest political and economic developments via Google news