On the 23rd, the US FDA = Food and Drug Administration officially approved the new coronavirus vaccine of Pfizer, a major pharmaceutical company.
High-ranking U.S. government officials have indicated that vaccines will become more mandatory in schools and businesses.
In the United States, Pfizer's new coronavirus vaccine was given an "emergency use permit" in December last year, and has already been inoculated more than 200 million times.
The FDA announced on the 23rd that it will officially approve the vaccine after reviewing the data submitted by Pfizer.
As a result of clinical trials in more than 40,000 people, the FDA says that it is highly effective in preventing the onset of coronavirus infection and its safety.
Approval applies to people aged 16 and over, and vaccinations aged 12 to 15 continue to be based on an emergency use permit.
The FDA will continue to follow up on safety and verify its effect on the worldwide mutant virus "Delta strain".
The official approval of the vaccine will help boost the vaccination of people who are concerned about safety, and schools and businesses will make vaccination mandatory, according to the U.S. government's medical director, Mercy. It is being watched whether the pace of inoculation will accelerate in the future.
The American pharmaceutical company Moderna has also filed an application for formal approval of the new coronavirus vaccine and is currently under review.
President Biden "Inoculate Immediately"
"I would like to tell those who said they wouldn't get the vaccine unless the vaccine was officially approved. Now is the time and I want you to get it right away. Don't waste it." We called on people who were not vaccinated to get vaccinated.
As of the 22nd, about 170.8 million people, 51.5% of the population, have been vaccinated in the United States, and the Biden administration is expecting an increase in the vaccination rate with this official approval.