By Reuters Staff 9 Min Read Posts have been circulating on social media claiming that only governments are calling the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines “vaccines”, and that the companies themselves call them “biological agents” and an “Operating System designed to program Humans.” This claim is false: both Pfizer and Moderna refer to their COVID-19 vaccines as “vaccines”. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed safety data from clinical trials and granted emergency use authorizations for both vaccines. FILE PHOTO: A nurse fills a syringe with a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, at Enfermera Isabel Zendal new pandemic hospital in Madrid, Spain, February 4, 2021.