‘There’s No Excuse To Wait Any Longer’: Emory Infectious Diseases Expert Breaks Down FDA Approval of COVID-19 Vaccines
From Walt Disney World and Chevron to CVS and a Michigan university, a flurry of private and public employers are requiring workers to get vaccinated after the federal government gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
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This week, the Food and Drug Administration finally gave their full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
Millions of doses had already been administered under an emergency use authorization, or EUA. It’s a slightly lower regulatory bar meant for public health crises.
Dr. Colleen Kelley, an infectious diseases researcher at Emory University, says the vaccine getting full approval is a big deal. She joined WABE’s “All Things Considered” and started by laying out how FDA approval differs from EUA.
Lily Oppenheimer contributed to this report.
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