Moderna: "COVID-19 Vaccine Provides Immunity for at Least One Year"

President-elect Joe Biden publicly received the second dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Delaware on the 11th (local time). He also publicly received the first dose on the 21st of last month. The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses.

U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna expects its COVID-19 vaccine to provide immunity for at least one year.

On the 12th (local time), according to CNN and others, Moderna's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Tal Zaks, said at the 'JP Morgan Healthcare Conference' that "the vaccine is expected to protect you from COVID-19 for at least one year."

CMO Zaks added that they will conduct a trial to confirm whether a third dose of the vaccine can enhance immunity against COVID-19.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and Moderna vaccine, both approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), require two doses.

The intervals between the first and second doses are three weeks and four weeks, respectively.

However, CNN explained that since the vaccines were developed recently, no one knows how long the immunity will last.

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