Moderna is banking on a combined COVID, flu and RSV vaccine. Will it work? – CBC

Controversial decision to promote shot before clinical trials are done raises concerns

Nov 12, 2022

Moderna is actively promoting a combined COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccine, something that aims to target three of the most serious respiratory illnesses circulating each year in a single shot.

But while a safe and effective vaccine would be welcome as Canada faces a surge in pediatric RSV cases, stubbornly high COVID hospitalizations and deaths and steeply rising flu cases, the pharmaceutical company hasn’t released data to support the vaccine’s safety or efficacy.

Moderna president Stephen Hoge told CBC News he hoped the three-in-one vaccine would be submitted to Health Canada for regulatory approval within a year.

“We really do think that the triple combo — the flu, plus COVID, plus RSV — is really going to be the ideal shot for us to get every year,” he said in an interview this week.

“And honestly it just takes one shot to try and prevent all of that, and so we’ll try and add as much bang for the buck into that shot as we can and hopefully help protect people through winter seasons in the years to come.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/moderna-covid-flu-rsv-vaccine-1.6647447