“If everything is on track, if everything proves what it appears to be, we could get approval within days after that,” Azar said. "We’ll ship within 24 hours of FDA authorization. We could see both of these vaccines out and into people’s arms before Christmas.”
Moderna earlier on Monday said it would request an emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration and conditional approval from the European Medicines Agency, after finding that its coronavirus vaccine is 94.1 percent effective.