COVID Policies Should Be Decided by Public Health Agencies, Not Corporations

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COVID Policies Should Be Decided by Public Health Agencies, Not Corporations
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Some medical professionals and researchers are worried about Pfizer’s outsize influence when it comes to public COVID policies.

Pfizer recorded $7.8 billion in U.S. revenue for its COVID vaccine in 2021. The government has options to buy 1.6 billion Pfizer vaccine doses and has so far bought 900 million of them, including 500 million purchased at not-for-profit prices to be donated to poor countries.

“The agreement could set a precedent,” in which another company could cite Pfizer’s contracts to argue the government has surrendered any rights to an invention, she said.Prices for the COVID drug and vaccine will go up once the pandemic period is over, Bourla saidPfizer spokesperson Sharon Castillo declined to respond to specific questions about Pfizer’s influence on pandemic policy.

to track the spread of the virus and find the best places to recruit volunteers for its vaccine trials and deployed rapid drug-screening tools to develop Paxlovid.a Pfizer vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus

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