Operation Warp Speed Angles For Greater Role In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing

Government offers help securing supplies in return for another 100 million doses by Q2. That would mean abandoning Pfizer’s preferred arms-length relationship.

The arms-length relationship between Pfizer and the US government’s Operation Warp Speed has stiffened as they negotiate terms for a contract option for a second tranche of 100 million doses of the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine.

Government officials are saying the negotiation turns on how soon Pfizer could produce the additional doses, and are suggesting that...

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