Our vaccines won’t arrive for three months, but there’s another problem with our ticket out of lockdown that two out of three people will need to overcome.
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Our vaccines won’t arrive for three months, but there’s another problem with our ticket out of lockdown that two out of three people will need to overcome.
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.
Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Margot Sanger-Katz and Noah Weiland, The New York Times Published: 19 Dec 2020 10:45 PM BdST Updated: 19 Dec 2020 10:45 PM BdST A health care worker makes a selfie while receiving a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times)
The European Union appears to have paid less than the United States for some of the coronavirus vaccines it secured, according to confidential pricing data that was released in a seeming blunder. ); }
A Belgian government minister released, then quickly deleted, a Twitter post late Thursday containing prices that the EU has negotiated to pay pharmaceutical companies for coronavirus vaccines.