>Aren’t Big Pharma commercials legally required to list all the “may cause myocarditis” side effects at the end and say “check with your doctor”?!
A DRUG is "prescription only" when [medical professionals must supervise its use] because patients are not able to use the drug safely on their own.
Congress also gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to oversee prescription drug ads. In turn, the FDA passed regulations detailing how it would enforce those requirements. These regulations are also known as "rules."
Broadcast product claim ads (TV, radio, telephone) must include the following:
The drug's most important risks ("major statement") presented in the audio (that is, spoken) AND
Either all the risks listed in the drug's prescribing information or a variety of sources for viewers to find the prescribing information for the drug
This means that drug companies do not have to include all of a drug's risk information in a broadcast ad. Instead, the ad may tell where viewers or listeners can find more information about the drug in the FDA-approved prescribing information. This is called the "adequate provision" requirement.
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/prescription-drug-advertising/basics-drug-ads
[Talk to your doctor if you have questions about getting a COVID-19 vaccine.]
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect.html
This Review provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of mRNA-based DRUG technologies and their applications, and discusses the key challenges and opportunities in developing these into a new class of DRUG.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25233993/