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Pfizer-BioNTech to provide U.S. with another 200M shots for kids, boosters

By Chris Newmarker | July 23, 2021

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine [Image courtesy of Wikipedia]

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX) announced today that the U.S. government has purchased another 200 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine.

Media outlets including CNN and the Financial Times cited a Biden administration official saying the additional doses are needed to vaccinate children under 12, pending FDA authorization, plus the potential need for additional booster shots against variants. In a recent CNN interview, President Joe Biden predicted that the government will OK vaccines for young children in the next few months; Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told a Senate panel that it could be by early winter.

Pfizer and BioNTech expect to deliver the additional doses from October 2021 through April 2022, bringing the total doses purchased by the U.S. government for the American public to 500 million. In addition, the U.S. is buying 500 million doses for the world’s poorest countries.

“As a long-term partner to the U.S. government in the fight against this pandemic, we are proud of the impact of vaccination efforts across the country. Vaccines have been and will remain critical to protecting lives against this devastating disease,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a news release. “These additional doses will help the U.S. government ensure broad vaccine access into next year.”

About The Author

Chris Newmarker

Chris Newmarker is the executive editor of WTWH Media life science's news websites and publications including MassDevice, Medical Design & Outsourcing and more. A professional journalist of 18 years, he is a veteran of UBM (now Informa) and The Associated Press whose career has taken him from Ohio to Virginia, New Jersey and, most recently, Minnesota. He’s covered a wide variety of subjects, but his focus over the past decade has been business and technology. He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. Connect with him on LinkedIn or email at cnewmarker@wtwhmedia.com.

Comments

  1. Dan Shaw says

    July 27, 2021 at 12:25 pm

    Incomplete article about boosters

    Reply
  2. Ipanema says

    July 27, 2021 at 1:39 pm

    Why would they want to continue to promote this irresponsible idea if not for profit? I am ashamed to admit that I have worked for so many years for an industry that is now becoming solely focused on profit instead of people’s health and well-being. I am all for vaccines but not for human experimentation. There is absolutely no need for boosters or for vaccinating young people. Their time would have been better spent performing some pharmacovigilance and acknowledging all the terrible side effects on many who have participated in their experiment.

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