European medicines watchdog says there is ‘promising evidence’ the vaccines work against variant first encountered in India
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Australia has earmarked 25 million Covid vaccine doses from Moderna as it tries to speed up vaccination in people under 50 after deciding against AstraZeneca, whose jab has been linked to rare blood clots.
Reuters reports:
The country had last month doubled its order for Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine to 40 million shots, preferring it over AstraZeneca for its nearly 12 million people in that age group.
Moderna said it will supply 10 million shots against the original strain of the virus this year and 15 million doses of its updated variant booster candidate in 2022.
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More clinical and real-world data is needed on how well and for how long Covid vaccines are protective before any decisions should be made on offering third or booster doses, Europe’s drug regulators have said.
Reuters reports:
The European Medicines Agency’s head of biological health threats and vaccines strategy Marco Cavaleri cautioned against making “premature” moves to deploy booster Covid-19 shots.
“We need to look into real-world evidence... to give us the data we need to know when would be the right time to give a third dose,” he said. “We need to have data that show in the field, either real-world evidence or clinical trials, that show what is the level of protection that is retained by the vaccines that we currently have.” Continue reading...
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