The UK watchdog, called the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said Wednesday that it had approved the Pfizer vaccine. “They’re great, they’re good scientists,” Dr Fauci said in an interview with CBS News, according to a transcript. “But they just took the data from the Pfizer company and instead of scrutinizing it really, really carefully they said, ‘OK, let’s approve it. The UK “kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile,” Dr Fauci told CBS. “Our process is one that takes more time than it takes in the UK,” Dr Fauci told the BBC, according to a report in the Washington Post.

Source: The Irish Times December 04, 2020 07:53 UTC