FDA fully approves Pfizer CoronaVirus vaccine

The biggest, and most reasonable, justification for people to refuse taking the CoronaVirus vaccine has been the emergency use authorization granted by the FDA rather than actual full approval. People said it is experimental, so they did not want to take it, as it is not yet authorized, and one can always debate whether it has been tested enough or not.

Well, today the FDA has announced that it has granted full approval of the Pfizer vaccine against CoronaVirus (for people ages 16 and older - for children between 12-15 years it is still approved as emergency use).

From the press release:

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

So will all those who have refused to take it until now because of the emergency use status now take it because of the full approval?

I don't know if Moderna will be fully approved very soon after, but Netanyahu bet on Pfizer and it worked out.

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