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Can Pfizer and Moderna End the Pandemic by Sharing Their Vaccine Designs? It’s Not that Simple
Feb 19, 2021 12:03 PM By Kaiser Health News Could Pfizer and Moderna speed up vaccine distribution by sharing their technology? AFP / Ina FASSBENDER
by Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact
“Pfizer and Moderna could share their design with dozens of other pharma companies who stand ready to produce their vaccines and end the pandemic.” Feb. 3 in a Facebook post
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Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna earned praise for creating highly effective covid-19 vaccines in record time. But are they inadvertently hurting the public by not sharing their technology with other pharmaceutical companies to help speed up vaccine manufacturing and distribution?
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The following quote is attributed to Jeffrey Shuren M.D., J.D., director of FDA s Center for Devices and Radiological Health: Providing women with access to safe medical devices to meet their health care needs is a top priority for the FDA. Today, we ve taken two important steps on laparoscopic power morcellators as a result of listening to and acting on public comments to our draft guidance as well as considering the available scientific data. Reflecting that feedback and scientific review, our updated recommendations for health care providers include shared decision-making with patients, a thorough preoperative screening with the patient and a warning about the spread of benign uterine tissue, potentially requiring additional surgeries, when using uncontained laparoscopic power morcellators in gynecologic surgeries. We continue to recommend that laparoscopic power morcellation used in gynecologic surgeries