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Report: FDA Expected To Approve First COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use Late Friday

Eric Quintanar
Report: FDA Expected To Approve First COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use Late Friday
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The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly expected to issue an emergency use authorization to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate on Friday evening, a move that would authorize the first inoculations against COVID-19 for the U.S general public.  

According to The New York Times, the Pfizer vaccine approval was already expected to come as soon as this weekend, but FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn has since ordered the process to move fast enough to yield an authorization by the end of Friday. 

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