[oezi]

Yes, and it was only when the AZ vaccine (Jansen?) showed a trombosis risk that all manufacturers started to fokus on branding their vaccines to potentially distance themselves, or was this a timely coincidence?

Why couldn't they just be called Moderna/Pfizer/... Covid Vaccine?

[maxerickson]

The use of the brand names came with government approvals.

[orra]

It wasn't a precondition. Compare the approved vaccines now[1] with the archive back in March 2021[2].

[1] https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/publi...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210305190828/https://www.ema.e...

[angelzen]

Same reason we have Intel Pentium Core2 Duo E8400.