First COVID-19 mRNA vaccine authorised
2020 · Event
Britain's medicines regulator authorises the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine cleared after large-scale phase 3 trials; the US follows on 11 December and authorises Moderna's a week later.
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