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The vaccines have not been approved to this day. They are being used (and mandated) under an emergency authorization, because the testing has not been completed.

The UMMS article is full of half truths. It's a sales document, not a summary of the science (which is still highly ambiguous).

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That is a false claim.

> On January 31, 2022, the FDA announced the second approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

> On August 23, 2021, FDA announced the first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

Nope. Authorized for emergency use only. Using the word "approved" is an error:

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is a monovalent COVID-19 vaccine that is authorized for emergency use to prevent COVID-19 as:

    The first two doses of the three-dose primary series for children 6 months through 4 years of age. 

    A two-dose primary series for individuals 5 years of age and older. 

    A third primary series dose for individuals 5 years of age and older who have been determined to have certain kinds of immunocompromise.

Source?

Try reading the whole page.

> Comirnaty is a monovalent COVID-19 vaccine that is approved for use as a two-dose primary series for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older.

OK, they are approved for the first two primary jabs. Comirnaty, and the bivalent version, are not yet approved for any booster jabs. Those are still under EUA.

And booster jabs are about all that has been happening for years. Same for Moderna.

Read the whole page, carefully. Both are fully approved. I do not understand how you can conclude that the word "approved" is an error when both vaccines were upgraded from EUA to fully approved, in the words of the FDA themselves.

Because the boosters are EUA. Most of us, including me, got the two primaries a couple of years ago.

BTW, this conversation thread is flagged and dead, so no one sees it. And, I'm not going to vouch for the root, because it really is off-topic.

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