Pfizer to deliver US vaccine doses faster than expected, CEO says
By Riley Griffin Bloomberg,Updated January 26, 2021, 9:47 a.m.
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A supplier unloads carrier boxes with the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a deposit where the doses will be preserved before their distribution.RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images
(Bloomberg) Pfizer Inc. will be able to supply the US with 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses two months sooner than previously expected, according to its top executive.
Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said Tuesday that the drugmaker and its partner, BioNTech SE, will be able to deliver more doses to the US and European Union before the end of the second quarter due to a change in the vaccineâs label that allows health-care providers to extract an additional dose from each vial.
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Pfizer to supply 40mn COVID shots for poor countries
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New York: Pfizer on Friday committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get affordable shots to poor and middle-income countries.
The deal is a boost to the global program known as COVAX, as wealthy nations have snapped up most of the millions of coming shots.
The commitment announced at a virtual press conference held by the Geneva-based WHO, is seen as important because Pfizer and its partner BioNTech won the first emergency authorisation from the influential U.S. Food and Drug Administration in mid-December.