# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5308 "2020-11-10T13:53:07Z")

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Not to mention the fact that the FDA hasn’t approved anything yet. Pfizer hasn’t even applied for approval yet. They are planning to submit their application for emergency use authorization “after the third week of November.”

> **[Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/09/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-effective/)**
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> Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, say they will apply for emergency authorization from regulators after the third week of November.

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> Pfizer and BioNTech said they plan to submit an application for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration after the third week of November, when they will have two months of safety follow-up data on half of the participants in their trial, along with data on their manufacturing process. The agency will hold an external advisory committee meeting, and review of the data could take a few weeks. The first doses of vaccine might be available in December.

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