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'As global demand for Covid-19 vaccines dries up, the program responsible for vaccinating the world’s poor has been urgently negotiating to try to get out of its deals with pharmaceutical companies for shots it no longer needs.

Drug companies have so far declined to refund $1.4 billion in advance payments for now-canceled doses, according to confidential documents obtained by The New York Times.'

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nytimes.com/2023/02/01/health/

@cyrilpedia If I were a vaccine company, I would only accept that money as an 'option' to buy. The money then goes into increasing capacity. All of which goes down the tubes if covid suddenly stopped, like sars.

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