Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that created a Covid-19 vaccine, is set to receive nearly $5 billion from a $10 billion bill to fund efforts against Covid-19.
Officials have told Bloomberg that the U.S. government still owed Pfizer around $5 billion for 10 million courses of Covid-19 antiviral pills that it ordered in January, at the height of the omicron wave.
Republican and Democratic leadership in the Senate had agreed on a $10 billion Covid bill, but Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked the measure from advancing as they demand Democrats agree to a vote on an immigration-related amendment.
The White House had been asking Congress for a $22.5 billion bill to pay for its Covid-19 efforts, but Senate Democrats were forced by Republicans to cut it down.
“The bill is a start,” said White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients. “Congress must keep working to immediately provide additional funding for our remaining domestic needs.”
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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, G-D HIMSELF?
Forgive me for being so direct, but these Headlines constantly knocking anything about Covid such as Dr Fauci etc. are ridiculous on a Jewish Website.
We are required to do basic Hishtadlus, and Pfizer has been one well proven form we are required to follow, and has saved many lives (At least according to the info provided).
NO ONE – NOT DR FAUCI NOR YWN KNEW HOW TO MANAGE THE PANDEMIC PERFECTLY.
We try our best, and I don’t see why Dr Fauci has been repeatedly bashed on this website, if he’s a professional that can provide some guidance in the trying times we passed through.
If he has gone out of his boundaries or been untruthful, that’s a different topic…
Mordechai Hatzadik:
The last sentence in your post would have sufficed; other than the generic need to do hishtadlus, the rest was very badly misinformed, unfortunately.
As well, YWN happens to have been rather respectful of Lord Fauci.
Why is it newsworthy that the US government is going to pay its bills, to Pfizer or anyone else?
Has the YWN management started offering advertising space on the website for “free”. The Pfizer and moderna vaccines are being sold at a cost that is well below the average margin for new vaccines. This reflects both the government contributions to the vaccine development and the public health emergency to which the vaccination program is responding. Pfizer is a for-profit corporation and is negotiating a price with the government to recover its costs and earn a profit. Its called capitalism. Would you prefer the government instead buy that useless horse medication Ivermectin that was touted by the Trumpkopfs and just shown in a JAMA peer-reviewed article to be ineffective?
Fauci’s a monster
The vaccines did not stop this pandemic
One has to merely take a quick look at death rates in the most vaccinated countries to see this clear truth
The vaccines not only had limited window of effectiveness but also caused many side effects and caused the death rate of young adults to sharply increase this past year
Pfizer took billions of free money to create this vaccine , and then sold it for billions and billions more, they don’t deserve another cent and in fact should start shelling out fraud payments for all the people damaged
They have hidden tens of thousands of documents showing trial mismanagement, adverse reaction swept under the rug, not to mention their efforts spreading lies and propaganda throughout the entire pandemic
Fauci and his minions are to blame for allowing this corrupt industry so much power
And authorizing their dangerous products without true trials or proof of safety. The biggest lie of all is that the vaccine is “safe and effective”
dora:
Ivermectin is not only a horse medication, as you (and others with actual credentials) sneeringly and falsely imply, but there is a human version of it as well. And studies have shown that human version to be quite effective against Covid.