@jmc Yeah I dont think so....
Pfizer Jab Receives Full Approval From FDA, Pentagon Mandates Vaccinations For All Troops.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-vaccine-receives-full-approval-fda
The FDA listens to the money now, not a stuffy regulatory process.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.
And they're not content with thus as they looking at getting booster shots approved as well
Now this is where it gets interesting, legally speaking.
If you actually read the FDA information sheet not the press release.
https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download
The legal situation is very different from the press release. The domestic version of the vaccine is still under EUA (so not actually legal for other reasons) the "approval" is of the licensed version of the Europe version that Pfizer manufactures in the US. Now the wording of this "approval" looks like it is not actual regulatory approval as understood for all other FDA approved therapeutics but a legal slight of hand where they recognized under international agreements the European "Conditional Marketing Authorisation ".
The press releases was not run by the FDA lawyers, that information sheet was. The exact wording is interesting because thats what the FDA lawyers though would give them best legal defense in future lawsuits.
So what you quoted was just a White House generated press release.
The FDA press release means little legally speaking as the vaccine is still very EUA. Its 99.99% politically motivated. The "approval" looks like it may have more to do with trying to force out almost 1/3 of the current military who overwhelming dont support Biden. Plus the WH desperately need some news this week to distract from the unrepresented debacle in Kabul. I remember April 1975 very well. This is much much worse than Saigon.