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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 24 2021, @02:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-worth-a-shot! dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday August 24 2021, @12:23PM (4 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday August 24 2021, @12:23PM (#1170289) Homepage
    That logically fallacy is called "nut picking". It's basically like cherry picking, but you go out looking for the nuts, not the cherries. It's a form of hasty generalisation. You've found a small subset of group A that do X therefore all A do X. All the while overlooking the fact that larger subsets of group B do X. If you genuinely think doing X is a negative, and you're not disingenuous, then your attention is best focussed on the Bs than the As. Why do you focus on the As - is it because you don't genuinely think doing X is negative and you just wanted to take a cheap stab at the either the X-doing subset of A or even all As by association, or is it because you're disingenuous?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @09:42PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @09:42PM (#1170520)

    Maybe if you have nuts in both group A and group B you should stop focusing on which group they are in and instead focus on why they are nuts.
    Why is the 'Left' more determined to make anti-vax political than even the 'Right'?

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:30AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:30AM (#1170700) Homepage
      It's not, you've performed a hasty generalisation. I've seen way more "muh freedums" (which is a political statement about citizens' rights) from the right than the left. So again, you'd be more accurate if you directed your attention to group B for this X too.

      Next barrel please, I've shot all the fish in this one...
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @10:41AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @10:41AM (#1170758)

        By your own figures, one third of anti-vaxxers are democrats. Maybe there is more to it than just which lizard they vote for.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 09 2021, @02:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 09 2021, @02:13PM (#1176263)

    Good point.

    It should also be noted that, among conservatives, rural areas are much more likely to be unvaccinated. This could be for a number of reasons but part of it could also be a lack of convenient access? Also people in rural areas may be less likely to spread the virus as there is less congestion (but if they do get it it could be much worse if they have less access to advanced medical facilities so it might still be worth making the effort to getting them vaccinated)?