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.
โI am authorising the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVIDโ19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19,โ Denise Hinton, the agencyโs chief scientist wrote in a letter to a Pfizer executive.
