The NYT report said the review by the FDA confirms Moderna’s earlier assessment that its vaccine is 94.1 per cent effective in a trial of 30,000 people. The agency said side effects from the vaccine, including fever, headache and fatigue, were unpleasant but not dangerous.
“The success of Moderna’s vaccine has become all the more crucial to fighting the pandemic as other vaccine efforts have faltered. The hopeful news arrives at a time of record-breaking numbers of coronavirus cases that are overwhelming hospitals and of an ever-increasing death toll, which reached a bleak milestone of 300,000 on Monday,” the report said.