Pfizer vaccine receives full approval

[Matt]

The experimental excuse is gone for Pfizer at least. What is the next reason to be anti-vax?

[zzand]

What ever Social Media and fringe websites and online "experts" tell them to say.

[SoutheastMIViewer]

We should all celebrate with other items the FDA approves to be healthy like eating a double Big Mac at McDonalds and drinking a Super Extra Large Coke!

[bmw]

The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee)

Is that really the best name they could come up with? Tough to pronounce and even tougher to figure out pronunciation based on that spelling.

[Bryce]

Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee)

Is that really the best name they could come up with? Tough to pronounce and even tougher to figure out pronunciation based on that spelling.

Maybe the plan is to give it a catchy nickname and market it as a "NATY Daddy" to increase usage among certain demographics?

[bmw]

hmmm....a "NATY Daddy" for the guys and a "Koe ho" for the ladies. You might be onto something.

[Matt]

hmmm....a "NATY Daddy" for the guys and a "Koe ho" for the ladies. You might be onto something.

Free 30 packs of Natty Light or Busch Light?

[TC Talks]

One of the first and largest is at the Pentagon, which announced on Monday that it was moving ahead with plans to require all active-duty troops to be vaccinated. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III will soon send specific vaccination guidelines to the country’s 1.4 million active-duty service members, the Pentagon said.

Mr. Austin had already received authorization from President Biden to mandate vaccines for troops once the vaccine was fully approved, and he is moving swiftly to put the plans into action, said John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman.

“These efforts ensure the safety of our service members,” Mr. Kirby said during a news briefing on Monday. He said the deadline date for getting vaccinated was still being determined.

The move is intended to harden the country’s defenses against the highly contagious Delta variant, which has driven new cases and hospitalizations up across the country, especially in areas with low rates of vaccination, where many military bases are located.

Mr. Biden announced last month that all federal employees and on-site contractors must be vaccinated against the coronavirus, or else submit to regular testing and other measures. The requirement applied to the 766,372 civilians working for the Defense Department, but not active-duty service members.

New York City announced on Monday that every employee of the city’s Department of Education, from principals to janitors, would have to receive at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine by Sept. 27. And Chevron became the first major American oil producer to require its field workers to get vaccinated.

Before the F.D.A.’s announcement, the three coronavirus vaccines available in the United States, made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, were all being administered in the United States under an emergency use authorization. (The Pfizer vaccine remains available on that basis for youths 12 to 15 and for extra doses for some immunocompromised people.)

The F.D.A.’s approval action on Monday could reinforce the legal standing of some mandates and pave the way for some organizations to impose stricter requirements and no longer allow employees the option of frequent testing as an alternative to getting vaccinated.

Officials also hope that full federal approval will quiet some of the vaccine misinformation online and induce more hesitant people to get vaccinated. A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that three out of every 10 unvaccinated people said that they would be more likely to get a shot once it was fully approved.

NY Times

[kager]

The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee)

Is that really the best name they could come up with? Tough to pronounce and even tougher to figure out pronunciation based on that spelling.

They've run out of good names for prescription drugs, cars / trucks, and craft beer / wines.