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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by ceejayoz on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:15AM (#28276042)
Vaccines are pretty low margin. Jumping straight to production for a vaccine that winds up not approved would prove pretty expensive, and most of them aren't an emergency scenario that would justify that risk.
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by vlovich123 on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:01AM (#28276828)
You've answered why the government guaranteed purchases of the vaccine & why production was parallelized. That doesn't answer the question why this changes the FDA authorization flow because in the flow chart EUA & full approval happen at roughly the same time & the claim is they have the same safety requirements profile (i.e. I am free to burn money & produce something someone doesn't buy - why would the FDA be involved).

Said another way, what was the extra steps that needed to happen between EUA & full approval?

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