Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Wins EU Green Light

The first COVID-19 vaccine will shortly be available to the EU member states. The European Medicines Agency says that uncertainties remain over the ability of the vaccine to prevent transmission of the coronavirus and whether the new variant strain will render this and other vaccines less effective.  

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Shipments of the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine are expected to begin within days in the EU after the European Commission gave the product a conditional marketing authorization (CMA) on 21 December, just hours after a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency.

The president of the commission, Ursula von der Leyen, described the move as a “decisive moment in our efforts to...

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