Does emergency use authorization mean the vaccine is safe?

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After all, EUAs are not the same thing as a full approval from the FDA. Health law scholar Christopher Robertson of Boston University and professor of medicine Jeremy Greene [explain the history, rationale and possible pitfalls]( of this special mechanism that clears drugs for use in a major health emergency. Also today: - [When horse flu shut down the economy]( - [Black Pete in the age of BLM]( - [What critics got wrong about “Hillbilly Elegy”]( Lynne Anderson Senior Health + Medicine Editor Tony Potts, a 69-year-old retiree, removes his face mask for a temperature check just before receiving his first injection in a phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial sponsored by Moderna. Potts is one of 30,000 participants in the Moderna trial. 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