moderna is developing a combined vaccine

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Moderna seems to have a new head start on its competitors. The laboratory is developing a new vaccine to fight both Covid-19 and the flu.

Scientific progress does not stop. The American pharmaceutical company Moderna was one of the first to develop an effective vaccine against Covid-19. Now he wants to go even further by focusing on a serum that would serve both as a booster for a third dose against Covid-19, as well as a dose to protect himself from the flu virus. “We believe there is a huge opportunity ahead if we can bring a highly effective annual pan-respiratory booster to market.“, explained Stéphane Bancel, the director general of the Moderna laboratory. This would allow people who want to be vaccinated against the flu and who need a booster of the vaccine against the Covid-19 to have only one only injection to be made.

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For Stéphane Bancel, this would facilitate the vaccination course. “Moderna could be the first to commercialize this important new opportunity“, he said with pride, before adding:”The population will keep the epidemic in mind and will be much more inclined to recurrent vaccination.“This unique vaccine, which would fight against the two viruses, would therefore be much cheaper.

A common process in medicine

And if some are already skeptical about this combination of the two vaccines in one dose, Marc Gastellu-Etchegorry, epidemiologist at Médecin Sans Frontières (MSF), assured Yahoo : “Mixing vaccines is very common. […] When we carry out vaccination campaigns with Doctors Without Borders in Africa, for logistical reasons, we try not to waste time and we do several vaccines at the same time. So far, the various entities working on pharmacovigilance have never identified a problem.. “Words that could reassure more than one. For the moment, this serum is still in development.

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