The Pfizer Vaccine: Overcoming the Legal, Financial, Political and Regulatory Obstacles

On August 23, 2021, the FDA announced the first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine proved to be an exciting lesson in overcoming obstacles. In the ten months from the COVID outbreak in China to an effective Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, BioNTech founders, Dr. Ugur Sahin and  Dr. Özlem Türeci, worked with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla to make the vaccine happen. Join Ron Weaver, JD Harvard, Senior Member Counsel at Stearns Weaver Miller, to learn how their teams made it work.