Officials hope the vaccine will get COVID-19 pandemic under control as cases surge and as the death toll nears 300,000. “I am authorising the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID‑19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19,” Denise Hinton, the agency’s chief scientist wrote in a letter to a Pfizer executive. In a televised statement posted on social media, US President Donald …
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