Following FDA approval of Pfizer's shot, the anti-vaccine movement cooks up new conspiracy theory
If you expected the anti-vaccine crowd to stand down after the Food and Drug Administration gave final authorization to Pfizer's COVID-19 shot, we have some bad news for you.
These people have come up with a new conspiracy claim about the shot. It's no more credible than their old conspiracy theories, but lying hasn't stopped them before, so why would it stop them now?
The new theory is complicated. It relies on the technicalities of government vaccine approval rules specifically on a tortured interpretation of those rules. That's not surprising: Conspiracy theorists often aim to ply the inexpert masses with plausible-sounding but inaccurate legalisms in order to sow confusion.
Reduced to its essentials, the new claim is that the FDA didn't really grant full authorization to the Pfizer vaccine, which has been christened Comirnaty.
They assert that the agency approved a Pfizer vaccine that isn't actually available to Americans, while still allowing Pfizer to distribute a different COVID-19 vaccine under its previous emergency use authorization, or EUA.
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