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USA Continues Buying mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
December 13, 2020 • 12:52 pm CST
(Coronavirus Today)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense announced on December 11, 2020, they will purchase an additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate, called mRNA-1273, from Moderna. If authorized by the U.S. FDA, the Moderna vaccine will begin shipping immediately and be provided at no cost to Americans.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar stated in a press release, “This new federal purchase can give Americans even greater confidence we will have enough supply to vaccinate all Americans who want it by the second quarter of 2021.”