FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine, Pfizer-BioNTech
August 23, 2021
Silver Spring, MD – Today, Monday, August 23rd, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 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.








