"BERLIN — As the U.S. starts its mass-inoculation drive and Britain continues its vaccine rollout, some in Europe are chafing at their wait for approval of a COVID-19 shot, which Germany is now demanding happen sooner than planned.
That may indeed come to pass following Tuesday’s announcement by the European Medicines Agency that it was moving its previously scheduled Dec. 29 meeting on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Monday.
...But the date change also came after Berlin and other European capitals increasingly expressed impatience with the EMA’s timetable.
...The EMA said its human medicines committee would “conclude its assessment” of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as early as possible “once the data on the quality, safety and effectiveness of the vaccine are sufficiently robust and complete to determine whether the vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks.”...Read all.
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