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Pfizer’s Reckless Policy on Allocation & Pricing of COVID-19 Vaccine Endangers the World News18 2 hours ago Arun Jain © Provided by News18 Pfizer’s Reckless Policy on Allocation & Pricing of COVID-19 Vaccine Endangers the World Pandemics, like wildfires, need to be extinguished quickly, otherwise they spiral out of control. Pfizer’s policies in regard to the allocation and pricing of its COVID-19 vaccine have brought the developing world to the brink of an enormous humanitarian catastrophe and has exposed rich countries to serious risks in the time to come. COVAX: C...

Dr. Joycelyn Elders joins other surgeon generals to call for national vaccine day Here’s a splendid idea: Dr. Joycelyn Elders and three other former U.S. surgeon generals have called for a national vaccine day. Advertisement I’m old enough to remember the mass polio vaccinations in the 1960s. Everybody in my Lake Charles, La., neighborhood trooped down to Hamilton Elementary one weekend. We wouldn’t have thought of NOT doing it. The release: The  first letter from the majority of former US Surgeons General to President Joe Biden calls for  National Vaccine Day, a new one-time federa...

Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act to speed up COVID-19 vaccines. But can that actually rapidly increase output?

Biden hopes Defense Production Act can aid vaccine production. Experts say it will take time. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY UP NEXT On his second day in office, President Biden said he would invoke the Defense Production Act to speed up COVID-19 vaccine production. Whether that can rapidly increase output is an open question, experts say. The administration's 198-page COVID-19 strategy plan says it will use the production act to strengthen the supply chain for the raw materials needed to make vaccines and support expanding capacity to make lipid nanoparticles, a crucial and c...