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ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2026

From discovery through emergency use to the present: Safety evaluation of the COVID-19 mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine.

Walter Straus

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Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Walter StrausClinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Moderna, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-1247-4783

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need to develop preventive vaccines to blunt the impact of the greatest global health crisis in a century. Two vaccines, both employing mRNA technology, were developed from bench to bedside in under one year - a milestone considered nearly impossible. This paper examines the evolving safety profile of mRNA-1273, from development under Operation Warp Speed through Emergency Use Authorization, and subsequent deployment at nearly unprecedented scale. Vaccine safety was characterized during clinical development and refined through well-established safety monitoring systems (e.g. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS]), as well as newly introduced systems such as V-Safe. Key safety findings, such as myocarditis, are reviewed as well as safety findings in special populations. The complementary contributions of public, private, and academic sectors highlight how collaboration and rigorous monitoring supported timely and comprehensive safety assessment of a new vaccine in the extraordinary setting of a global pandemic.

Indexed as

COVID-19COVID-19 Vaccines2019-nCoV Vaccine mRNA-1273Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsEmergency Use AuthorizationHumansSARS-CoV-2Vaccine Development2019-nCoV Vaccine mRNA-1273COVID-19 Vaccinesadverse eventsCOVID-19mRNA-1273mRNA vaccinepharmacovigilancesafetySARS-CoV-2vaccine safety surveillance

Identifiers

PMID42018766
PMCPMC13108353

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Registered trials

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