The regulatory agency reportedly has an unofficial deadline of Labor Day or sooner
Photo: Getty Images As states, cities, and private companies issue limited coronavirus vaccine mandates to encourage more Americans to sign up for a shot, the Food and Drug Administration is now speeding up their timeline for final approval of the Pfizer vaccine. Such a development would clear a legal hurdle to order official vaccine mandates for many federal employees, including over 1.3 million active duty military personnel.
Last week, President Biden announced that the FDA decision could be expected some time in the early fall. But on Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the regulatory agency has an unofficial deadline of Labor Day or sooner. Pfizer first applied on May 7 for final FDA approval, an upgrade from the emergency use authorization currently granted to their shot and the candidates produced by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
While the approval will provide new power to some employers’ vaccine mandates, there has been some polling suggesting that final FDA authorization could convince some vaccine skeptics to sign up for a shot. Polls this summer conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that three in 10 unvaccinated Americans said they would be more likely to get vaccinated once one of the shots has received final approval.
Following some public pressure to devote more resources to the process amid the Delta surge, the FDA told STAT News last week that it would begin a “sprint” to fully authorize the Pfizer shot. Many are waiting: The State University of New York and the City of San Francisco have stated that their enrollees and employees must get vaccinated shortly after FDA approval.
In a press conference on Tuesday — the day after the U.S. belatedly hit the goal of 70 percent of adults with at least one shot — President Biden described the summer’s alarming surge in cases as “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” With a surplus of vaccines available in the U.S., he described the rise in hospitalizations and deaths as “a tragedy. People are dying and will die who don’t have to die.
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