evidence: The COVID-19 vaccines the FDA recently authorized target a new variant. The FDA grants emergency use authorization to products when there aren’t effective, approved and available alternatives. The claim that the FDA shouldn’t be able to approve the new COVID-19 vaccines because there is no public health emergency and that other treatments are available is False. [...] U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA Approves and Authorizes Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines to Better Protect Against Currently Circulating Variants, Aug. 22, 2024