The vials containing the Pfizer-Bioentech Covid-19 vaccine are set to be shipped to the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant on December 13, 2020 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Pfizer CEO Albert Borla said the company is in talks with the federal government to provide an additional 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses next year, as Americans will get their first shot on Monday.
Pfizer and U.S. Preparing details about the timing, Bourla told CNBC’s “Squawk Bx” in an interview Monday morning. The company may offer several doses of it in the third quarter of 2021, but the U.S. government is pushing for it in the second quarter. He said that.
“We are working very collaboratively to try to find a solution and to be able to allocate 100 million. [doses] “If possible in the second quarter or many of them,” Borla said, adding that the company has not yet signed an agreement with the US.
The comments came after the Food and Drug Administration approved the coronavirus vaccine of Pfizer and Bioentech for emergency use late Friday night. The vaccine was authorized for people 16 and older.
The first dose of the Pfizer vaccine with Bioentech began shipping to the U.S. over the weekend. Trucks carrying vaccine-dose box boxes hit Mitch on Sunday. Pfizer’s production facility in Kalamazoo had left and was expected to arrive on Monday, according to Pfizer. The company said that 19 boxes with a total of 194,775 all doses in 500 states are being sent to sites across all the states and the boxes will be available in the US. Will be sent to regions. The vaccine is a two-dose branch administered with a dose other than three weeks.
Production of the initial dose of Pfizer vaccine will be limited, as officials predict that U.S. It will take months for everyone who wants to be vaccinated to get vaccinated. Vaccines are expected to be distributed in phases before the most critical and vulnerable U.S. workers. The CDC has provided states with an outline that recommends giving priority to health care workers and nursing homes, but states may distribute the vaccine as they see fit.
Gen. Gustave Parna, who oversees logistics for Operation Worm Speed, said Wednesday that the government will distribute 2.9 million doses of the vaccine within 24 hours of approval by the FDA for immediate use, followed by an additional 2.9 million doses for patients 21 days later. To get his second shot.
Pfizer has already struck a deal with the U.S. government to supply 100 million doses of the vaccine as part of the Trump administration’s vaccine program Operation Worp Speed, enough to inoculate 50 million people. Under the agreement, Americans will receive the vaccine for free.
Earlier Monday, Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC that the U.S. government rejected an offer in November to secure higher doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
“There have been several talks with the U.S. government about taking more supplies in the second quarter. The company did not carry out that offer as it did in November,” Gottlieb said.
The vaccine could not come at a more crucial time. Previous U.S. Hospitals in India are already overcrowded with cowardly patients and more gruesome records will be set than the one that has erupted in the country. Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Ro. Robert Redfield, earlier this month, warned that the coming months of the epidemic would be “the most difficult in the country’s public health history”.
President Donald Trump has previously said he would demand a Defense Production Act to ensure Americans can get the vaccine.
Borla said Monday he would be “very positive.” “I hope they do it very soon because, especially in some components, we’re running critical supply limits. But I think they’ll do it, so it won’t be a problem.”
– CNBC’s Spencer Kimball contributes to this report.
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