MODERNA Vaccine Arrives: Community pharmacists across Australia are planning for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses to become available from late Sep.
Following recent provisional approval for Moderna from the TGA, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is urging it be available for Australians aged 12 years and over.
Adjunct Professor Trent Twomey, Guild National President, stresses there is ample data to answer safety and efficacy questions to ensure adolescents can be fully included in the vaccine rollout.
With thousands of community pharmacists now joining the immunisation effort, Governments should be able to plan for further easing of restrictions, sooner rather than later -- delivering substantial social as well as economic benefits across Australia.
The two Moderna doses are to be administered just 28 days apart, to achieve full vaccination.
Moderna is already in wide use across the world including in the US, Canada, UK, European Union and Singapore.
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