Moderna

January 7, 2021, 5:11 pm

First batch of Moderna vaccines arrives in Israel

Some 100,000 doses included in shipment, with further doses from the US biotech firm expected to reach the country next week

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Thabisle Khlatshwayo receives her second shot at a vaccine trial facility for AstraZeneca at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, November 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

January 6, 2021, 11:16 pm

Health official: ‘Worrying’ study on vaccine’s potency against S. African strain

Sharon Alroy-Preis says unclear what impact vaccination has on COVID variant, but warns it may offer less protection against mutation

By TOI staff

A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine held by a nurse in Boston, Massachusetts, December 30, 2020. (Elise Amendola/AP)

January 6, 2021, 6:01 pm

PM: 1st Moderna shots land Thursday, we’ll give to those who can’t come to HMOs

300,000 doses of vaccine said expected within days after Israel, pushing ahead with inoculation campaign, approved it earlier this week

By TOI staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Jerusalem, January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

January 6, 2021, 12:34 am

Moderna to ship 100,000 vaccine doses to Israel this week — reports

Health officials said to indicate US biotech firm ready to start deliveries, despite earlier denial by Health Minister Edelstein

By TOI staff

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference at Airport City, outside Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2020. (Flash90)

January 5, 2021, 2:04 pm

Health minister: Moderna vaccines won’t reach Israel for another 2 months

Contradicting his own ministry, Edelstein says he doesn’t know about earlier shipments, though US-based firm said doses would arrive this month; calls to tighten lockdown now

By TOI staff

File: A plane of the international courier company DHL, carrying over 100,000 doses of the first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines, lands at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

January 1, 2021, 11:31 pm

Israel said pressing vaccine firms to speed up delivery in bid to avert shortage

Report says while pharma professionals back prioritizing nation to use it as a proving ground, board members fear anger in other markets will eventually hurt sales

By TOI staff

US President-elect Joe Biden arrives at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, December 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

December 21, 2020, 12:27 pm

Biden to receive COVID shot on live TV as Moderna vaccines start shipping in US

Trump, who has spread misinformation about vaccines, said not to be getting inoculated yet, due to recommended delay after experimental treatment when he caught the virus

By Jill Colvin

A nurse gives a volunteer an injection during trials for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in Binghamton, New York, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

December 19, 2020, 3:07 am

US clears Moderna vaccine for emergency use as 2nd shot against coronavirus

FDA endorses new inoculation, with first vials set to arrive in the United States on Monday; Israel has agreement for 6 million doses of vaccine, enough for 3 million people

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE

A nurse prepares a shot in a study of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. in Binghamton, New York, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

December 18, 2020, 12:52 am

FDA advisers endorse Moderna vaccine, setting it up for emergency use in US

Inoculation expected to receive approval immediately, with six million doses set to be shipped as soon as the weekend

By Issam Ahmed

A Moderna, Inc., building in Cambridge Massachusetts, May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, file)

December 17, 2020, 5:42 pm

FDA begins deliberations on Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine

Panel of US experts to pick apart data on 2nd shot produced in battle against coronavirus, days after approval of Pfizer inoculation

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine lab technician processing blood samples from study participants who volunteered to take part in testing the National Institutes of Health-funded Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Miami, September 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez, File)

December 15, 2020, 4:41 pm

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shows ‘no specific safety concerns’ — US regulator

FDA confirms efficacy of over 94% and safety of shots, which could be approved by week’s end; company to supply enough doses for 3 million Israelis

By Agencies and TOI staff

A person is injected as part of the first human trials in the UK to test a potential coronavirus vaccine, taken by Oxford University in England, on April 23, 2020. (Screenshot/Oxford University Pool via AP)

December 5, 2020, 11:26 pm

Health officials said to believe virus crisis could effectively be over by March

With first vaccines expected in days or weeks, officials tell TV network if Israel’s vaccination program proceeds as planned, pandemic could be in rearview mirror as Spring arrives

By TOI staff

An entrance to a Moderna, Inc., building, May 18, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

December 4, 2020, 5:02 pm

Israel signs with Moderna to triple upcoming vaccine supply

Once approved by FDA, company to supply enough shots for 3 million Israelis; Netanyahu: ‘We see the light at the end of the tunnel’; Pfizer vaccines may start arriving next week

By TOI staff

A medic in a protective suit and mask holds an injection syringe and vaccine. (oshcherban via iStock by Getty Images)

December 2, 2020, 11:54 am

Expert: 6 vaccine hurdles mean we’re ‘nowhere near’ Israel-wide immunity in 2021

Top epidemiologist says that with inoculations wowing in trials, ‘there’s light at the end of the tunnel — we just don’t know the length of the tunnel’

By Nathan Jeffay

The first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, May 4, 2020. (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)

December 2, 2020, 10:01 am

UK becomes 1st country to approve Pfizer vaccine, to be available from next week

Firm’s CEO calls British decision ‘a historic moment’; mass vaccination program to initially prioritize nursing home residents, health care staff, then older adults

By Agencies and TOI staff