Moderna Moderna Covid-19 vaccine likely to protect for 'couple of years': CEO Stephane Bancel
Paris/IBNS: Moderna's COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is expected to offer protection of up to a couple of years, the US biotech's chief executive said on Thursday.
The US biotech company, which came up with a vaccine last year against the novel coronavirus in just a few weeks, received approval for its shot from the European Commission on Wednesday, reports said.
Speaking at an event, organised by financial services group Oddo BHF, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said: "The nightmare scenario that was described in the media in the spring with a vaccine only working a month or two is, I think, out of the window."
"The antibody decay generated by the vaccine in humans goes down very slowly (...) We believe there will be protection potentially for a couple of years," he said, as reported by Reuters.
Bancel said his country is working to prove that its vaccine would also be effective against variants of the coronavirus seen in Britain and South Africa.
Scientists claim that the newly developed vaccines should be effective against both variants.
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