(Reuters) – The United States government has set a benchmark for the price of the COVID-19 vaccine in a $ 2 billion deal announced Wednesday with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and the German biotechnology BioNTech SE (22UAy.F) which will likely pressure other manufacturers to set similar prices, industry analysts told Reuters. …
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One prisoner who died had intracranial bleeding, fractures of the nose and eye socket, and six knocked-out teeth. Correctional officers who had mistreated him said he fell from a bunk. Another inmate defecated on himself after a guard hit him 19 times with a nightstick, despite the fact that he …
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