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In this March 2, 2021, photo, pharmacy technician Hollie Maloney loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**

FDA fully approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot; major step should spur vaccinations, mandates

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the full FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Mandates begin in earnest after full FDA approval of Pfizer vaccine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A medical worker administers a shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a man at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Serbia has started administering a third, or booster, dose of four different vaccines, including Sinopharm, Pfizer, Sputnik and AstraZeneca, to people who previously were vaccinated at least 6 months ago. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Biden team to roll out vaccine booster plan ‘very shortly’

By Shen Wu Tan and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Katrina Taormina draws the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at Lehman High School, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in New York. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging everyone in K-12 schools to wear a mask when they return to class, regardless of vaccination status. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

White House: U.S. has given 110 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 60 countries

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this June 7, 2021, photo, demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, wave at cars that honk at them to support their protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit, saying if workers don’t like the rule, they can go find another job. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 mandates wade into uncertain legal territory

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 7, 2021, photo, an Israeli military paramedic prepares a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, to be administered to elderly people at a medical center in Ashdod, southern Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) **FILE**

Israel, South Korea strike a novel vaccine-swap deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Jens Spahn (CDU), Germany's Federal Minister of Health, comments at a press conference on the consequences of the STIKO recommendation to administer an mRNA vaccine after a first vaccination with Astrazeneca in Berlin, Germany, Friday, July 2, 2021. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)

Germany recommends combination of AstraZeneca, mRNA shots

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Sunday, April 4, 2021, a member of the medical staff prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination site in Sarcelles, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File) **FILE**

U.S. sends less than half of 80 million promised vaccines by deadline

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, a Kent State University student gets his Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination from Kent State nursing student Allie Rodriguez in Kent, Ohio, Thursday, April 8, 2021. On Friday, June 25, the FDA released a warning noting increased risk of heart inflammation for patients receiving either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, following a review of data showing reported cases of inflammation in some young patients, often in the week after receiving the second does. Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine is not included in the warning. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

FDA adds warnings about risk of heart inflammation for Pfizer, Moderna vaccine recipients

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, May 15, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine lie in a box during a vaccine campaign in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany. Health authorities are trying to determine whether heart inflammation that can occur along with many types of infections could also be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

CDC panel convenes to discuss COVID-19 vaccines, heart issue in young persons

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A woman receives the AstraZeneca vaccine during a mass coronavirus vaccination for public transport workers at the Kampung Rambutan Bus Terminal in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Asia welcomes U.S. COVID-19 vaccine donations amid cold storage worries

By Kim Tong-hyung and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, photo, frozen vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are taken out to thaw, at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium. Envoys from World Trade Organization member nations are taking up a proposal to ease patents and other intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines to help developing countries fight the pandemic, an idea backed by the Biden administration but opposed in other wealthy countries with strong pharmaceutical industries. On the table for a two-day meeting of a WTO panel opening Tuesday June 8, 2021, is a revised proposal presented by India and South Africa for a temporary IP waiver on coronavirus vaccines. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) **FILE**

Biden to purchase 500M Pfizer shots for rest of the world

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 29, 2020, file photo, Pat Moore, with the Chester County, Pa., Health Department, fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to emergency medical workers and health care personnel at the Chester County Government Services Center in West Chester, Pa. Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12. The company released the preliminary findings Tuesday, May 25, 2021, based on testing on more than 3,700 12- to 17-year-olds in the United States. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Moderna says its COVID-19 shot works in kids as young as 12

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Japanese Health Minister Norihisa Tamura, center, speaks to reporters in Tokyo Thursday night, May 20, 2021, after a health ministry panel approved two new COVID-19 vaccines. Japan has approved the usage of Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines and is set to expand the state of emergency target Friday, in its latest efforts to contain a surge of coronavirus infections nine weeks ahead of the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. (Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan approves Moderna, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Twelve-year-old Jasic Helvey recieves a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by Shaunee Darrough, a nurse with TrueCare Nursing, Monday, May 17, 2021, inside Topeka High's gymnasium as part of a clinic with Topeka Public Schools USD 501. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

FDA: Thawed Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines can be refrigerated for a month, up from 5 days

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) ** FILE **

Donald Trump grumbles over lack of COVID-19 vaccine credit: ‘Just a mention please!’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Keidy Ventura, 17, receives her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in West New York, N.J., Monday, April 19, 2021. Ventura wanted to get the vaccine as soon as possible to protect her multi-generational family that she lives with. New Jersey is opening up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to those 16 or older beginning today; only the Pfizer vaccine is authorized for teenagers younger than 18. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

CDC panel to clear the way for first Pfizer shots in 12-15 age group

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this April 26, 2021, file photo, East Hartford High School senior Sudeen Pryce, right, center, receives support from classmate Alexia Phipps, left, East Hartford High School Intervention Coordinator Mark Brown, second from left, and EMT Katrinna Greene, top right, of Manchester, as RN Kaylee Cruz of Bristol administers the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine to Pryce at a mass vaccination site at Pratt &amp; Whitney Runway in East Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Pfizer’s vaccine decision brings hope of ‘normal’ high school year, former FDA chief says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

EU insists dispute with AstraZeneca is only contractual

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Vaccine maker BioNTech says no need to waive patents

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press