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U S Buys 200 Million Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccines at Higher Price

U.S. Buys 200 Million Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccines at Higher Price © Paul Hennessy/Zuma Press The U.S. has purchased 200 million additional Covid-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE, at a higher price than previous deals. The U.S. is paying about $24 a dose, according to Pfizer, up from the $19.50 that the government paid in its earlier deals to supply the country. The deal brings the total purchased from the U.S. to 1 billion doses. The companies said they expect to deliver 110 million of the additional doses by the end of the year, with the rest by the end of next April. Pfizer said the U.S. has the option to acquire an updated version of the vaccine targeting variants, should they be available and authorized by regulators. Pfizer is testing one targeting the Beta variant, which was first identified in South Africa.

Why we re thinking about vaccine hesitancy wrong in communities of color: Experts

Why we re thinking about vaccine hesitancy wrong in communities of color: Experts On Location: May 7, 2021 Replay Video UP NEXT It started with the op-eds. Even before COVID-19vaccines were widely available, newspapers opinion pages warned that some Black people would be hesitant to get the shot. Those columns often referenced the infamous 1930s Tuskegee Syphilis Study, during which doctors withheld treatment from Black men with syphilis, as evidence of lingering well-founded mistrust that might drag down vaccination rates in the Black community.MORE: The risks unvaccinated Americans are weighing That theory wasn t just fueled by newspapers. Former President Barack Obama and former NBA player Charles Barkley both referenced Tuskegee during an April NBC special to encourage Black Americans to get vaccinated. I’m telling all my friends, Yo man, forget what happened back in the day, every Black person, please go out and get vaccinated, Barkley said.

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