Vaccines. Moderna will produce 3 billion doses in 2022

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April 29, 2021 American pharmaceutical company Moderna announced that in 2022 it will produce

of its Covid vaccine, "even with potentially lower doses for boosters and pediatric vaccines, if authorized". Moderna, whose vaccine runs on messenger RNA technology like Pfizer, has also revised production estimates for 2021 and hopes to be able to deliver between 800 million and 1 billion doses this year (currently 700 were expected. million doses).

In a statement, the company said it will expand its manufacturing capacity in the plants it owns and collaborates with in Switzerland, Spain and the United States, and that it is working on a new formulation of the vaccine, which could remain stable at the time. normal refrigeration temperatures up to three months. 

Moderna's vaccine is licensed for use by adults in the United States, the European Union and many countries. The company expects data from a US study in children between the ages of 12 and 17 and has begun testing doses in younger children.

There are

the doses of vaccine against Covid-19 administered so far in Italy, 84.3% of the total of those delivered, equal to 22,410,560: in detail 15,612,480 Pfizer / BioNTech, 1,955,700 Moderna, 4,662,580 Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) and 179,800 Janssen (J&J). The administrations involved 10,815,178 women and 8,071,747 men.

. This is what we read in the online report of the extraordinary commissioner for the health emergency.

The doses were administered to 5,968,557 over 80, 2,747,459 frail subjects and caregivers, 3,213,418 health and social health workers, 880,849 non-health personnel employed in health facilities and in work at risk, 647,560 residents of residential structures , 2,740,827 from the 70-79 age group, 868,889 from the 60-69 age group, 1,155,495 school staff, 319,753 from the Defense and security sector; the item 'other' includes 344,118 people.