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United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – Regulations and Guidances for Biologics and the Bioresearch Monitoring Program (BIMO). Manufacturing Considerations for Licensed and Investigational Cellular and Gene Therapy Products During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, January 2021.
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did not allow plaintiff to take advantage of her own pleading deficiencies to avoid preemption by “disput[ing] whether the Pfizer COVID-19vaccine was actually a vaccine.” Without the administration of a “covered countermeasure” – the COVID-19vaccine – those claims would not exist. 247d-6d(b).
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