BioNTech / Pfizer corona vaccine approved in the US.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency approval to the corona vaccine from Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer. The FDA announced Friday night (local time). The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, promised his compatriots the first vaccines this weekend. “The first vaccine will be administered in less than 24 hours,” Trump announced in a video Friday night (local time) on Twitter.

His government has already started shipping the vaccine from the Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech and the American company Pfizer to every state in the United States. Their governors would decide who would get vaccinated there first.

Trump emphasized that vaccines are free for all Americans. Regarding the development of the vaccine in record time, he said: “This is one of the greatest scientific achievements in history. The vaccine will save millions of lives” and will soon end the pandemic once and for all. “Trump presented the development as a success for his administration, which is not true. The president said: “The pandemic may have started in China, but we are ending it right here in the United States.”

Republican Trump lost the US election on November 3 to Democrat Joe Biden. Experts also attribute this to Trump’s crisis management of the pandemic, which Americans give poor marks in polls. Biden will be sworn in on January 20. Immediately afterwards, the Democrat wants to start a 100-day plan to combat the corona virus.

The pandemic remains out of control in the United States. By Wednesday, the death toll in a single day had surpassed 3,000 for the first time. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the number of new registered infections was more than 200,000 in recent days.