Trump Jumps the Gun, Tweets That Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Has Been Approved

President Donald Trump said in a tweet Friday that Moderna Inc.'s vaccine had been approved and would ship immediately, although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had made no public announcement yet.

"Moderna vaccine overwhelmingly approved. Distribution to start immediately," Trump said in a post on Twitter.

A panel of outside FDA advisers endorsed Moderna's vaccine Thursday, after which FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said his agency wwould move to quickly authorize it.

But the FDA had not yet authorized emergency use of the vaccine at the time of Trump's tweet, a Bloomberg reporter said on Twitter, citing the agency.