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The formal implementation of this recommendation, which would allow the vaccine to be given to anyone 16 or older, is expected to follow imminently. Vaccines should be available for some Americans next week, with doses going to health-care workers and older adults at the highest risk of serious complications from COVID-19.
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The vaccine will be distributed under an emergency-use authorization, which fast-tracks drugs still under investigation because of extenuating circumstances. The new authorization does not necessarily mean that the vaccine will ultimately become approved and licensed by the FDA indefinitely. Pfizer will continue to run a phase-three randomized clinical trial with 43,448 participants to evaluate the vaccine’s safety and efficacy.
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Pfizer said this week that additional vaccine doses beyond the first 100 million may not be available in the U.S. until the summer. That would mean 50 million Americans—only 15 percent of the population—could be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in the next six months. Next week, the same FDA process will evaluate—and likely authorize—a vaccine from the pharmaceutical company Moderna.