In vaccine news, the World Health Organization approved China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use Friday. This is WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “This expands the list of vaccines that COVAX can buy, and gives countries confidence to expedite their own regulatory approval and to import and administer a vaccine.”

Sinopharm is the sixth vaccine to receive emergency use approval by the WHO. Here in the U.S., Pfizer is requesting full approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its vaccine for people 16 and older. All three COVID vaccines currently in use in the U.S. have emergency use authorization. If successful, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would be the first to be fully approved.