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A committee of external experts advising the Food and Drug Administration has convened this afternoon and has become publicly deliberating if the agency needs to provide a Emergency Use Authorization to its COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its associate, German biotech company BioNTech.
If the committee votes to give an authority –and also the FDA agrees–that the national government’s Operation Warp Rate has stated it will start sending vaccine allotments to countries and authorities within hours.
Thus far, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been accepted in the United Kingdom–following an unusually fast 10-day inspection . The nation started a mass vaccination effort. On Wednesday, Canadian health officials declared they, also, had approved the vaccine.
