Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2020
How the U.K. beat the U.S. and Europe to a COVID-19 vaccine
2 December 2020 - Country’s top medicines watchdog approved a shot by Pfizer and BioNTech, as it prepares to strike out on its own after Brexit.
Britain’s first-in-the-West authorisation of a Covid-19 vaccine thrusts its little-known medicines watchdog into the global spotlight—weeks before the U.K.’s split from the European Union adds to the regulator’s responsibilities.
