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What Next TBD: What's Taking the FDA So Long?

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Experts say that a “fully approved” designation for the vaccines could have sweeping effects. Broader vaccination mandates, inclusion for new age groups, and reassurance for those hesitant to take a vaccine without the designation. As calls for approval grow louder and more urgent, the Food and Drug Administration is yet to give its blessing. What’s happening inside the FDA as they work toward this milestone? Guest: Sarah Owermohle, health care reporter at Politico Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lately, I've been thinking about how certain terms from the pandemic are just part of

0:39.6

our vocabulary now, words and phrases that were utterly unfamiliar to us in 2019.

0:46.2

Super spreader, social distancing, PPE, and one of those for me is emergency use authorization

0:53.2

or EUA.

0:56.2

I realized that I, as a reporter, have been using the term emergency use authorization

1:03.0

and EUA a lot since December, and yet at the same time, I'm not sure I could actually

1:09.3

define what it means.

1:11.6

Can you define it?

1:13.6

So emergency use authorization is something that came about in 2005, so it's relatively recent

1:20.0

to the history of drugs and regulation.

1:23.4

Sarah Overmall is not new to the term.

1:25.7

She covers healthcare for Politico, and right now she's mostly focused on COVID and vaccines.

1:31.0

It came about for an anthrax vaccine that the Armed Services needed because of biological

1:36.0

threats, and has been used since then for desperately needed vaccines or treatments for things

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