Updated on December 10, 2020 at 7:45 pm
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Three Massachusetts doctors are on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel that met Thursday to discuss whether or not the agency should approve Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
Drs. Cody Meissner from Tufts, Eric Rubin from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Ofer Levy from Boston Children s Hospital and the rest of the FDA advisory committee participated in a virtual meeting Thursday. The panel recommended that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine should be approved for emergency use authorization.
While Levy, who is director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s, said ahead of the vote he was optimistic.