{"id":15262,"date":"2021-03-08T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15262"},"modified":"2021-03-08T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:05:11","slug":"how-were-the-covid-vaccines-approved-when-it-takes-an-average-of-quite-a-few-years-to-make-and-most-importantly-test-a-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/03\/08\/how-were-the-covid-vaccines-approved-when-it-takes-an-average-of-quite-a-few-years-to-make-and-most-importantly-test-a-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"How were the covid vaccines approved when it takes an average of quite a few years to make and most importantly, test, a vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They&#8217;re being approved under an EUA &#8211; Emergency Use Authorization. &#8220;For an EUA to be issued for a vaccine, for which there is adequate manufacturing information to ensure quality and consistency, FDA must determine that the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks of the vaccine.&#8221; For more info see the CDC site: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/EUADetails\">bit.ly\/EUADetails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re being approved under an EUA &#8211; Emergency Use Authorization. &#8220;For an EUA to be issued for a vaccine, for which there is adequate manufacturing information to ensure quality and consistency, FDA must determine that the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks of the vaccine.&#8221; For more info see the CDC &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/03\/08\/how-were-the-covid-vaccines-approved-when-it-takes-an-average-of-quite-a-few-years-to-make-and-most-importantly-test-a-vaccine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How were the covid vaccines approved when it takes an average of quite a few years to make and most importantly, test, a vaccine?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15271,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions\/15271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}