U.S. may cut some Moderna vaccine doses in half to speed rollout, official says

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Source: Reuters

HEALTHCARE & PHARMA
JANUARY 3, 2021 3:18 PM UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO

U.S. may cut some Moderna vaccine doses in half to speed rollout, official says

By Brendan Pierson
2 MIN READ

(Reuters) - The U.S. government is considering giving some people half the dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, a federal official said on Sunday.

Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the federal vaccine program, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that officials were in talks with Moderna and the Food and Drug Administration about the idea. Moderna’s vaccine requires two injections.

“We know that for the Moderna vaccine, giving half of the dose to people between the ages of 18 and 55, two doses, half the dose, which means exactly achieving the objective of immunizing double the number of people with the doses we have,” Slaoui said.

“We know it induces identical immune response” to the full dose, he added.

Moderna and the FDA could not immediately be reached for comment.

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1. Adultering the product, the last time they did this my favorite pizza tasted like cardboard

Does it make any sense? Why did they do the dose they did if half a dose was just as effective? Something not right with Warped Mind Department.

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2. When you take antibiotics, they say you need to take the whole

Dose for it to be effective. How would this be any different? I don’t trust them. This is just to make numbers look better.