Pfizer, Vaccines, and Diseases You’ve Never Heard Of

Eric Medlin
4 min readSep 1, 2021

Treat the new vaccines like we’ve treated drugs for pseudo-bulbar affect. Now.

Danny Glover in a PSA for pseudo-bulbar affect. Source: New York Times

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization from the FDA back in December. Last week, it finally received full FDA approval along with a new brand name, Comirnaty. The name seemed unwieldy. It was immediately criticized as a word jumble, one that nobody would actually remember…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites