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FDA Grants Full Approval to Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine

FILE — A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in San Francisco on Aug. 1, 2021. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older, making it the first to move beyond emergency use status in the United States. (Mike Kai Chen/The New York Times)