# Comirnaty vs. Spikevax (brand names of vaccines)

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comirnaty-vs-spikevax-brand-names-of-vaccines/949549 "2021-08-26T05:44:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comirnaty-vs-spikevax-brand-names-of-vaccines/949549/2 "2021-08-26T06:10:33Z")

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The name “comirnaty” immediately became a laughingstock. Here’s a WaPo article:

> **[Behold the online roast of ‘Comirnaty,’ the brand name of the Pfizer vaccine](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/23/comirnaty-pfizer-vaccine-mocked-twitter/)**
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> Writer Drew Magary likened it to “a Philly resident trying to say ‘community.’”

It’s so silly, I saw fit to post this news in the “Covidiot” thread.

> [@Share your Covidiot stories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/1015):
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> This, possibly arguably, belongs here in the Covidiot thread: Pfizer brand-names their newly-FDA-approved vaccine “Comirnaty”: (In contrast, word is leaking out that Moderna, when their vax is fully approved, will call it “SpikeVax”.)

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> Not helping Pfizer/Comirnaty’s case is that, in reality, the Moderna vaccine will have the objectively cooler name: SpikeVax. How utterly metal.

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