And don’t confuse “approved” with “authorized.”
The shots were authorized, with the Emergency Use Authorization loophole. They weren’t approved. They couldn’t be legally mandated because they weren’t approved.
That's false. They were indeed eventually approved for adults. IIRC, they're still under EUA for pediatric populations, but for adults, they're official.
Comirnaty was approved, but not available in USA, and BioNtech, which wasn’t approved, is what was being administered… from what I remember
Granted I haven’t followed along with this stuff the past couple of years, since the vax hoopla tapered off, so I’m just going off what I remember from ~2021, and maybe things have changed since I stopped paying attention.
And don’t confuse “approved” with “authorized.”
The shots were authorized, with the Emergency Use Authorization loophole. They weren’t approved. They couldn’t be legally mandated because they weren’t approved.
That's false. They were indeed eventually approved for adults. IIRC, they're still under EUA for pediatric populations, but for adults, they're official.
Comirnaty was approved, but not available in USA, and BioNtech, which wasn’t approved, is what was being administered… from what I remember
Granted I haven’t followed along with this stuff the past couple of years, since the vax hoopla tapered off, so I’m just going off what I remember from ~2021, and maybe things have changed since I stopped paying attention.