US FDA’s Comirnaty Review By The Numbers

A timeline of the review and development of the first COVID-19 vaccine to win BLA approval.

Drug Review Profile: Comirnaty

In other stories in the Drug Review Profile, the Pink Sheet examines how placebo unblinding and emerging safety signals impacted the US FDA’s assessment of Pfizer’s Comirnaty. Below, we present the review timeline and a table of the reviewers involved:

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