Moderna begins testing COVID-19 vaccine in kids under 12
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Moderna has begun administering its coronavirus vaccine in children ages 6 months to 12 years as part of a Phase 2/3 study dubbed KidCOVE.
The current study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, reactogenicity and effectiveness of two doses of the mRNA-1273 vaccine given 28 days apart. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health, which is helping to collaborate on the study, previously cautioned that results regarding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines in children will likely not come until later this year. On Monday, Moderna announced that it had begun testing its next generation COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1283, in a separate clinical trial. The new vaccine candidate could potentially pave the way for easier distribution as it was developed as a refrigerator-stable vaccine. The new vaccine candidate is thus far only being tested in healthy individuals.More Related News