BREAKING NEWS
Pfizer will ship fewer vaccine vials after successfully lobbying the U.S. government to count — and pay for — “extra” doses found in the vials.
Friday, January 22, 2021 6:14 PM EST
For weeks, Pfizer executives pushed officials at the Food and Drug Administration to change the wording of the vaccine’s so-called emergency use authorization so that it formally acknowledged that the vials contained six doses, not five.
The distinction was critical: Pfizer’s contract with the federal government requires that it be paid by the dose.
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