The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorisation to use the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, paving the way for the first Americans to be immunised in the coming days.
βI am authorising the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVIDβ19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19,β Denise Hinton, the agencyβs chief scientist wrote in a letter to a Pfizer executive.