{"id":45089,"date":"2020-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/22\/european-union-approves-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:10:43","slug":"european-union-approves-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/22\/european-union-approves-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Approves\u00a0Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Vaccine is already being given to high-risk people in the United States and Britain<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Dec. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the European Union (EU) on Monday and should soon be available in all 27 member nations.<\/p>\n<p>Deliveries of the vaccine are expected to begin this weekend, with shots beginning across the EU between Dec. 27 and 29, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we have promised, this vaccine will be available for all EU countries at the same time, on the same conditions,&#8221; said EU  President Ursula von der Leyen. &#8220;This is a very good way to end this difficult year, and to finally start turning the page on COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine is already being given to high-risk people in the United States and Britain, the <em>AP<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-amsterdam-europe-4cd75619772c208c29fddbcb02d25b9e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>AP News<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccine is already being given to high-risk people in the United States and Britain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-45089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}