Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
US, UK, Canada, Australia, Switzerland and Singapore Will Let New-Variant Vaccines Onto the Market Without Safety or Efficacy Testing
identical guidelines for fast-tracking release onto the market of vaccines for the new variants. The countries issued the recommendations under the banner of the ACCESS Consortium. ACCESS is an acronym based on the first letters of the five countries names.
A few days earlier, on February 22, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a similar set of recommendations. They allow Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for investigational vaccines for new variants,
letting them be used on the general public