Prognosis

Moderna Takes on Unusual FDA Request: Do Its Vaccines Cause Long Covid?

This would require finding study subjects who never had Covid and never took the vaccine.
A pharmacist administers a third dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to a customer at a pharmacy in Livonia, Michigan.Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg
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Hi, it’s Gerry in New York. Moderna is moving forward with an unusual study of its Covid vaccine at the FDA’s request. More on that in a moment, but first ...

Moderna usually researches whether its vaccines keep people healthy. But the company is moving forward with an unusual study on its Covid shot that says a lot about who’s in charge of America’s public health these days.