Full Pfizer Vaccine Approval Possible by End of Summer: NIH Head

Full approval of Covid-19 vaccine could happen by the end of the summer, NIH’s Francis Collins says at a Washington Post event.

• He was responding to a question of why full authorization takes so long as January 2022 was set as the target date for a full approval of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine
• “I think most of us expect they’ll get there sooner than that,” maybe “by the end of the summer”

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