Question asked by MC on 01/22/2021
After Europe, the controversy over the sixth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has arisen in the United States. And could tarnish the image of the two laboratories on a planetary scale, barely crowned with the development of the first authorized vaccine against Covid.
As Libé had told Thursday, the two labs, on the grounds that it is possible according to the European Medicines Agency to extract a sixth dose from a vial of their vaccine (in addition to the five originally planned) , have decided to deliver fewer bottles to European states as of this week. Where EU countries expected 600 million doses of vaccine in the form of 120 million vials, they will now have to be content, for the same price, with 100 million vials. And get six doses per container. The labs, for their part, will be able to sell the 20 million bottles (120 million doses) elsewhere.
This adjustment, which amounts to an increase of
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