Modern will rate governments between $25 and $37 according to the dose of their COVID-19 candidate vaccine, depending on the amount requested, executive leader Stephane Bancel told German weekly Welt am Sonntag (WamS).
“So our vaccine prices are about the same as those for the flu vaccine, between $10 and $50,” he said.
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On Monday, an EU official concerned about the negotiations said the European Commission was seeking to reach an agreement with Moderna to obtain millions of doses of its candidate vaccine worth less than $25 per dose.
“Nothing has been signed yet, but we are close to reaching an agreement with the European Commission. We need to deliver Europe and we are in constructive talks,” Bancel told WamS, adding that it is only “a matter of days” before a contract is ready. .
Moderna said its investigational vaccine is 94. 5% effective in preventing COVID-19, based on interim knowledge from a complex clinical trial, fitting the developer of the moment to report effects that far exceeded expectations after Pfizer and his wife BioNTech.
The EU has been in talks with Moderna for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine since at least July.
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