When Pfizer offered last summer to sell more doses of its Covid vaccine, the Trump administration passed. The New York Times reports:
Now Pfizer may not be able to provide more of its vaccine to the United States until next June because of its commitments to other countries, they said.
As the administration scrambles to try to purchase more doses of the vaccine, President Trump plans on Tuesday to sign an executive order “to ensure that United States government prioritizes getting the vaccine to American citizens before sending it to other nations,” according to a draft statement and a White House official, though it was not immediately clear what force the president’s executive order would carry.
Because the vaccine is a two-dose treatment, the 100-million doses ordered is enough to vaccinate only 50 million Americans. When the U.S. passed on the new order, the European Union jumped in and ordered 200 million.
The emergency authorization for the vaccine could come as early as this weekend, according to the Times.
