EUA For COVID-19 Vaccine Would Mean Fewer Patient-Years Of Follow-Up But More Pharmacovigilance
Executive Summary
US FDA plans to leverage large safety surveillance databases to make up for the fact that a vaccine authorized for emergency use likely would have only one-quarter to one-half as much safety data follow-up as a typical vaccine licensed under a BLA, says CBER director Peter Marks.
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