Breaking: HHS announces purchase of 100 million more Pfizer vaccine doses
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Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:15 am on December 23, 2020
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One of the few missteps by HHS on the vaccine front has effectively been reversed. The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to supply an additional 100 million doses by the end of July, with most of those delivered by the end of the second quarter. The move comes after criticism of an earlier decision not to exercise a purchase option that would have secured the doses up front:
The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech to purchase 100 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine, which will be fully delivered no later July 31, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.