{"id":35856,"date":"2021-06-01T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35856"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:27:21","slug":"moderna-applies-for-full-fda-approval-for-its-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35856","title":{"rendered":"Moderna applies for full FDA approval for its COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna on Tuesday said it is applying for full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine is currently authorized under an emergency use authorization, which the FDA has stressed met a very rigorous standard, but applying for full approval is the next step in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does it matter?\u00a0<\/strong>It could also make it easier for employers, universities and other groups to mandate that people take the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer applied for full approval, known as a biologics license application, for its vaccine last month, but the process is likely to take time.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna said it had begun a &#8220;rolling submission process&#8221; of more data on its vaccine, for full approval for people 18 and older.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to announce this important step in the U.S. regulatory process for a Biologics License Application (BLA) of our COVID-19 vaccine,\u201d said St\u00e9phane Bancel, Moderna&#8217;s CEO. \u201cWe look forward to working with the FDA and will continue to submit data from our Phase 3 study and complete the rolling submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna on Tuesday said it is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35857,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35856\/revisions\/35857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}