These shenanigans show that the approval can't have been based on all the information. They should have delayed the approval, at least until Phase III trial officially ended.
How many lives would that have cost, though, and for what benefit? The size of the sample that had already received the vaccine without issue made it basically impossible [0] for there to have been an unexpected danger. And without approval, the govt couldn't mandate federal employees take the vaccine, and that mandate has saved tens of thousands of lives.
These shenanigans show that the approval can't have been based on all the information. They should have delayed the approval, at least until Phase III trial officially ended.