{"id":104426,"date":"2022-01-20T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=104426"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:09:48","slug":"moderna-plans-to-consolidate-flu-and-covid-vaxx-into-one-jab-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=104426","title":{"rendered":"MODERNA PLANS to CONSOLIDATE FLU and COVID VAxx INTO ONE JAB for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(RTTNews) &#8211; Moderna Inc. plans to market a combined COVID-19 and flu booster as soon as the fall of 2023, according to Chief Executive Officer Stephane Bancel. The one-yearly booster would also work against Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV, a common respiratory virus, in single shot that would be administered before winter.<\/p>\n<p><b>While speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum<\/b>, <b>Bancel said the combination vaccine would avoid the requirement of multiple jabs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bancel said, &#8220;Our goal is to be able to have a single annual booster so that we don&#8217;t have compliance issues where people don&#8217;t want to get to get two to three shots a winter, but to get one dose where they <b>get a booster for Corona and a booster for flu and RSV to make sure people get their vaccines<\/b>&#8230;. The best-case scenario would be the fall of 2023.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/moderna-plans-combined-covid-19-flu-booster-shot-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/moderna-plans-combined-covid-19-flu-booster-shot-in-2023&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642766702985000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1yFOSB88CS4HQDcJP7kN0Y\">https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/<wbr \/>articles\/moderna-plans-<wbr \/>combined-covid-19-flu-booster-<wbr \/>shot-in-2023<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}