FDA Approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

On August 23, 2021, the FDA 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, 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.


This post is an excerpt of the FDA’s media release, “FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine”, released on August 23, 2021. 

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