U.S. President Elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer – BioNTech. The vaccine was administered in his home state of Delaware by a Nurse Practitioner (NP) from Cameroon, Mrs. Tabe Masse Agboraw, who is the head of Employee Health Services at Christiana Care Hospital.
This made headlines among the Cameroonian online community as many were proud that one of their own administered the vaccine to the future US President.
“The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has not been approved or licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for use in individuals 16 years of age and older.
The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of the medical product under Section 564(b)(1) of the FD&C Act unless the declaration is terminated or authorization revoked sooner.” – (via Pfizer’s website).
