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I heard J&J vaccine is behind schedule on production.
And Pfizer has halted production to upgrade a factory.
All those billions the US govt. gave them and they didn't seem to have stockpiled tens of millions as they were expected too.
Just for clarity, the US government didn't "give" money to Pfizer as part of operation Warp Speed.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/...-of-the-governments-operation-warp-speed.htmlIn July, Pfizer got a $1.95 billion deal with the government’s Operation Warp Speed, the multiagency effort to rush a vaccine to market, to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine. The arrangement is an advance-purchase agreement, meaning that the company won’t get paid until they deliver the vaccines. Pfizer did not accept federal funding to help develop or manufacture the vaccine, unlike front-runners Moderna and AstraZeneca.
Also, the Pfizer factory closing is in Europe and affects Europe, not the USA
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-...s-01-15-21/h_ae8a53335ace398d7b0ff575c8c11aa5... This comes as CNN reports Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shipments will be temporarily reduced outside the US as manufacturing scales up.
Specifically Pfizer said on Friday that shipments from its vaccine facility in Puurs, Belgium, will be temporarily reduced as it scales up to produce two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses in 2021. ...