{"id":471,"date":"2020-12-11T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=471"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:22:42","slug":"us-experts-recommend-pfizer-vaccine-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"US experts recommend Pfizer vaccine approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Medical experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration have recommended emergency approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The decision comes after a 23-member panel met to determine whether the drug\u2019s benefits outweigh the risks.<\/p>\n<p>The Pfizer vaccine has already been approved for the public in the UK, Canada, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-advert\">\n<div class=\"rectange-banner-container\">\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The drug still needs to be formally approved by the FDA\u2019s vaccine chief, which is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation comes a day after the US recorded more than 3,000 deaths in the latest 24-hour period \u2013 the highest total in a single day anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration have recommended emergency approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The decision comes after a 23-member panel met to determine whether the drug\u2019s benefits outweigh the risks. The Pfizer vaccine has already been approved for the public in the UK, Canada, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}