FDA advisers recommend Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, with agency action expected soon

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3. The advisory committee is made up of "outsiders" and are not affiliated with the government

The main concerns brought up by some members were -

1.) the inclusion of ages under 18 (they felt there was not enough data for the 16 & 17 year olds although the vote question was to allow for use for age 16 and older),

2.) the issue of possible adverse reactions by people with allergies (particular those with peanut/egg allergies who carry epipens and those who often opt-out of vaccines like the flu one due to that)

3.) not a large enough sampling of the black population in the trials (only about 9% of the 43K)

4.) the brief time span from the start of this latest phase in July, with submitted results only covering about 4 months (through to November 18).

5.) the novel nature of the vaccine itself - i.e., most vaccines are either live viruses, weakened viruses, or dead viruses and this is none of that... it is injecting cells with genetic material that tunnel inside certain types of your own cells, release their RNA for replication, to trigger your cells to morph into something that will sortof "mimic' the actual virus with its spikes, which would in turn trigger the body to produce antibodies to the now-manufactured "fake" virus look-alike, which would then be effective enough to fool and neutralize the real virus