The AAMC issued a statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization of a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. “The FDA’s authorization of the first vaccine to prevent COVID-19 represents a promising step toward ending the coronavirus pandemic. As our country and frontline health care workers confront the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, today’s approval is an important milestone in the fight against the pandemic, made possible by decades of biomedical research within the academic medicine community,” said David Skorton, AAMC president and CEO.