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- Pfizer will meet the country’s purchase of 200 million vaccines two months earlier than expected.
- CEO Albert Bourla said the US would receive 120 million doses in the first quarter, 20 million more than initially promised.
- The FDA has changed the labels of Pfizer’s bottles to recognize that they contain six doses, not five.
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According to the company’s CEO, Pfizer will supply 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine two months earlier than expected.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the US, which bought 200 million initial vaccine doses from the firm last year, would receive the shipment two months earlier than expected after the FDA changed the label to ‘extra doses’. in vials.
Bourla, who spoke at Bloomberg’s virtual Summit Summit on January 26, said Pfizer would supply 120 million doses to the U.S. in the first quarter, 20 million more than initially promised.
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Shortly after the Food and Drug Administration allowed the emergency of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. pharmacists reportedly squeezed six or seven doses out of the vials that should have contained only five.
Pfizer has urged the FDA to change the wording on vaccine labels to recognize that scales contain six doses, not five, reports The New York Times. The change enables Pfizer to ship fewer vials to the U.S., resulting in Pfizer fulfilling promised shipments sooner than expected.
The Trump administration has reportedly rejected Pfizer’s offer to buy additional doses last summer, meaning the pharmaceutical company will meet its obligations to other countries before the US gets more chances.
As U.S. COVID-19 cases peaked this winter, the Trump administration has failed to promise to vaccinate 20 million Americans by 2021. Insider’s Hilary Brueck reported that most states have thwarted the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine by creating a tangle of policies that have confused many people. residents on how and when to get shots.
The rate of vaccination of vaccines increased slightly after states began vaccinating elderly residents. Just over 3 million Americans received the complete two-dose vaccine, according to the CDC.
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have begun to decline, but health officials are warning Americans to be wary of new, more contagious coronavirus variants identified in some states.