Pfizer, BioNTech ask FDA for full approval of COVID-19 vaccine, report says
A health worker holds a tray with vials of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 during a priority COVID-19 vaccination program at a community medical center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) (Andre Penner, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Pfizer and BioNTech asked the Food and Drug Administration Friday for full approval of the companies’ Covid-19 vaccine . If approved, it would be the first Covid-19 vaccine in the United States to hold that distinction.
The vaccine was the first to be granted an emergency use authorization , or EUA, in December, for use in the U.S.
Vaccines can only be authorized in this manner during public health emergencies — in this case, the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, all Covid-19 vaccines currently in use in the U.S. are being administered through EUAs.
For the full report, go to NBCNews.com.
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