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Why Moderna Is the Biggest Winner From COVID Boosters So Far - Motley Fool

Why Moderna Is the Biggest Winner From COVID Boosters So Far - Motley Fool

Why Moderna Is the Biggest Winner From COVID Boosters So Far - Motley Fool
Dec 05, 2021 1 min, 20 secs

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized boosters for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer ( PFE ) and BioNTech ( BNTX ) for certain groups.

A little over two weeks ago, the FDA broadened its Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters to include all adults ages 18 and older.

More booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have been given than have been administered for the Moderna and J&J boosters.

You'd expect that more people would have received the Pfizer-BioNTech booster.

Also, many more individuals received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine initially than received the other two vaccines.

A lot of those people chose to receive the booster of the same vaccine that they received for their primary series.

Second, Moderna is gaining more traction with boosters than Pfizer-BioNTech or J&J are.

A little over 25% of the number of fully vaccinated individuals receiving the primary series of the Moderna vaccine have received Moderna boosters.

For those who initially received the J&J vaccine, 42.5% so far have gone with the Moderna booster versus 31.2% for a Pfizer-BioNTech booster and only 26.2% for a J&J booster. .

I suspect that preliminary data showing that a mix-and-match combination of the Pfizer-BioNTech primary series and a Moderna booster provides a higher efficacy could also be making a difference to some extent.

Singapore's minister of health even recently recommended that citizens in the country who initially received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine get the Moderna booster.

has already purchased enough doses from Moderna to meet the demand, including boosters.

What really matters for Moderna is how strong the longer-term demand will be for its COVID-19 vaccine.

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