A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine after it was approved for use by the FDA in children 12 and over at a Los Angeles County mobile vaccination clinic on May 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Patrick T.
FA NEW YORK - Pfizer-BioNTech will refer to their COVID-19 vaccine by its brand name Comirnaty, after the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration gave the shot its full approval Monday. But what exactly is Comirnaty (koe-mir'-na-tee) and why the name change?
The answer comes from Brand Institute, the pharmaceutical naming company that worked with Pfizer-BioNTech to come up with "Comirnaty." According to a news release from the Brand Institute, the name is a mash-up representing "a combination of the.