Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine wins full approval from the FDA:
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is now fully approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, making it the first shot against the coronavirus to get all the way through the regulatory review.
The FDA on Monday approved the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech for two doses, given three weeks apart, in people 16 years of age and older. The vaccine was previously being given under an emergency use authorization, which is still in place for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
"While this and other vaccines have met the FDA's rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use authorization, as the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product," said acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock in a release. "Today's milestone puts us one step closer to altering the course of this pandemic in the US."
Full approval is expected to make it easier for local governments, schools and businesses to require vaccinations and may encourage people who are hesitant to get a shot. Three in 10 unvaccinated adults said they'd be more likely to get a vaccine if one moved from emergency authorization to full approval by the FDA, according to a June poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
[...] The Pfizer vaccine will now be marketed as Comirnaty, said the FDA.
Also at Washington Post and CNN.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday August 24 2021, @03:59AM (10 children)
Why? What was it called before? Fucktavax? I've never known it under any other name.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @04:49AM
Hint: it's neither the fact itself, nor the reporting of it, nor the person of the reporter or her/his publication, that is made to look like a moron by your public display of total uninformedness and unwillingness (or inability?) to type three words into a search engine.
Yes, I know. This sentence was too complex for you. You will scold me for it. I don't give damn. Because I wasn't writing it for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @06:30AM (6 children)
It wasn't called anything.
No, really. Pfizer was not allowed to market the vaccine nor use a trade name. That is why you had people refer to it generally as "the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine" or use either of its generic name "tozinameran" or its clinical trial candidate designation "BNT162b2." None of which are a name but more of a description used in place of a name.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday August 24 2021, @12:37PM (5 children)
It's not our fault if you're slow.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @07:45PM (1 child)
Well it failed, the first way my brain tried to correct it was comorbidity - which probably isn't what they're going for. It does keep the togetherness vibe with "co-" in it at least...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @03:28AM
My first connection was "community" but that is probably more to do with hearing it first, instead of reading it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @03:26AM (2 children)
I'm sorry and maybe it is because I'm slow, but what does any of that have to do with what they called it before coming up with that name?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:42AM (1 child)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @08:18AM
I would acknowledge my mistake, if I had made that claim. The question was: "'The Pfizer vaccine will now be marketed as Comirnaty, said the FDA.' Why? What was it called before? Fucktavax? I've never known it under any other name.'" The U.S. isn't the world but when the question is "what was it called in the US before the FDA allowed it to be called by its trade name?" that answer is correct. Just like if the question was "what was it called in the EU before the EMA allowed them to use a trade name?" the answer would be the same. Just like the answer of "what did Pfizer call it before coming up with a name at all?" If you are in a location with marketing restrictions, like most people on this site, there is a good chance you've never heard the name before its approval in your area or it never stuck compared to the other alternatives the media uses because they are literally not allowed to use that name before then in your area.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 24 2021, @06:38AM
Why?
To avoid being confused with the:
- Pfizer covid-19 booster
- Pfizer HIV vaccine
- Pfizer melanoma vaccine
- Pfizer etc...
As for the choice of the name...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 24 2021, @03:41PM
The FDA requires drugs to have ridiculous names as a condition of approval.
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