Oakland County installs 10 freezers after FDA clears Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
Oakland County receives specialized freezers to store COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use.
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The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use Dec. 11, paving the way for an initial shipment of about 2.9 million doses of the vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. over the next week.
While not an FDA approval, the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine “holds the promise to alter the course of this pandemic in the United States,” according to Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research..