Washington, United States — The United States could start injecting the first Americans with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Monday, the country’s health secretary said Friday.
Alex Azar told news channels that final details were being ironed out after an expert committee convened by regulators voted to grant the two-dose regimen emergency approval for people aged 16 and over.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a statement Friday saying it had told Pfizer it would now “rapidly work toward finalization and issuance of an emergency use authorization.”
Azar told ABC News that authorities were working with Pfizer on logistics and “we could be seeing people get vaccina…
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