{"id":128447,"date":"2020-12-08T05:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hhs-chief-says-us-could-buy-500m-more-vaccines-from-pfizer\/"},"modified":"2020-12-08T05:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:25:48","slug":"hhs-chief-says-us-could-buy-500m-more-vaccines-from-pfizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hhs-chief-says-us-could-buy-500m-more-vaccines-from-pfizer\/","title":{"rendered":"#HHS chief says US could buy 500M more vaccines from Pfizer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#HHS chief says US could buy 500M more vaccines from Pfizer<\/strong>”
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar\u00a0on Monday said the US government has the ability to purchase an additional 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from drugmaker Pfizer.<\/p>\n

The delivery of 100 million doses \u2014 enough for 50 million Americans \u2014 is expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Pfizer, we have an option to buy an additional 500 million more,\u201d Azar said in an interview on \u201cNBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Azar said he expects the country will have \u201cenough vaccine\u201d by April or June.<\/p>\n

The government has contracts with six different vaccine manufacturers each for 100 million doses, \u201cso that we would have 600 million doses of vaccine across a broad portfolio,\u201d Azar said.<\/p>\n

The contract with New York-based Pfizer also includes an option to purchase as many as five times more, though Azar said he couldn\u2019t \u201creveal discussions around potential procurements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are continuing to work across manufacturers to expand the availability of releasable, of FDA app<\/a>roved vaccine as quickly as possible\u2026,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe do still have that option for an additional 500 million doses.\u201d<\/p>\n

A panel of scientists from the Food and Drug Administration is expected to give Pfizer\u2019s vaccine the green light as soon as this week, while another one from Moderna is also likely to be approved for emergency use soon.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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