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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved this Friday the emergency authorization for the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in that country, while President Donald Trump assured that the inoculation will begin in less than 24 hours.
With the resolution of the federal agency, the United States will thus become in the sixth country in the world to authorize the use of the aforementioned vaccine.
It is expected that during the next week 2.9 million doses are shipped for use in the country, according to ‘The New York Times’, the medium that has advanced the news.
However, President Trump has noted that the first vaccine will be put in less than 24 hours in a video broadcast from his Twitter account.
However, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention must still authorize the use of vaccines at the meeting that will take place this Saturday morning, so other calculations place the start of vaccination in the North American country on Sunday and Monday.
Trump defined as a “Medical miracle” and as “one of the greatest scientific achievements” the development of a vaccine in nine months in this same video.
The president assured that the pandemic will end “soon once and for all”, while emphasizing the safety of the vaccine and that it has no side effects.
The governors of each state have autonomy to decide where and how the vaccines will be administered, although Trump has stressed that it will be free and that health workers and the elderly will be vaccinated first.
The president in the previous hours pressured the FDA to quickly approve the vaccine and publicly criticized the pace of the review process. Now with the Mass inoculation is intended to reduce the high rates of infections and deaths that affect that nation.
