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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @09:35PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @09:35PM (#1170519)

    Wow. Troll for saying you should link to actual evidence, +5 insightful for saying you should accede to groupthink.

    I was not being antivax, I was pointing out that linking to Fox being antivax would completely short-circuit any argument that they are not anti-vax. Linking to NYT means nothing. It is as valid as linking to The Drudge Report to prove that the election was stolen from Donnie.

    Things that are generally accepted as factual don't need to be accompanied by up-front support:

    Then why the link to NYT ?

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:02AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday August 25 2021, @07:02AM (#1170692) Homepage
    You were getting in a flap about nothing, wasting everyone's time. Like someone who says "look, there's a single bright pixel in my photo of the sky - it must be a UFO" and demanding an explanation. It's obviously a flying windmill, please go tilt at it on your own.
    --
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:35PM (1 child)

    by drussell (2678) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 25 2021, @01:35PM (#1170805) Journal

    Really? You don't know what Fox' stance has been?

    There's a bunch of typical example clips, along with rebuttals to the falsehoods in this segment:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJufOyAbis [youtube.com]

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @06:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 25 2021, @06:11PM (#1170896)

      As I've said before, Fox news has run some irresponsible segments but it doesn't help that CNN takes some of those segments out of context. Text without context is pretext.