Coronavirus Notebook: Moderna Claims 94.5% Vaccine Efficacy, Janssen Starts Second ENSEMBLE Trial

The European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, and its new executive director, Emer Cooke, has taken up her role with a promise to make tackling COVID-19 her “number one priority.” 

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Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is now under rolling review in the EU • Source: Shutterstock

The big news of the week – and it’s only Monday – is that the US firm Moderna, Inc. is claiming an efficacy rate of 94.5% for its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine following an interim analysis of the Phase III COVE trial data.

The results put Moderna slightly ahead of both the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE and Russian Sputnik V vaccines, which...

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