Ascension

A complaint has been filed against Ascension Saint Thomas and its parent company by 13 Middle Tennessee employees seeking to curtail the health system’s vaccine mandate, citing regulatory technicalities that the Pfizer vaccine is still under emergency use authorization and thus requires employee consent to be administered. 

On Aug. 23, the federal Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, marketed as Comirnaty, for individuals 16 years of age and older. According to the FDA website, the vaccine remains under emergency use authorization for minors ages 12 to 15 and for the administration of a third dose to immunocompromised individuals.