, Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said that the contract was an option agreement and not a purchase agreement, so the government didn't agree to purchase the vaccines in advance.
"What they said was if the vaccines demonstrated to be safe and effective and if it gets authorized by the FDA, we will agree to buy 100 million units of it at an agreed price," Gottlieb said. Gottlieb said that Pfizer had offered an additional batch of vaccines to the US "multiple times," but the government are looking to make agreements with other manufacturers.
The reason why the government didn't take up Pfizer's additional 100 million option agreement could be because "they're betting that more than one vaccine is gonna get authorized," Gottlieb said. "They want to spread those bets."The US government have agreements with five or six manufacturers for around 100 million doses, Gottlieb noted.
Moderna
Maybe because they already had these prior agreements🤷♀️
Not sure whether it’s because the US need to reduce its population [and hence not provide the cure] or whether they don’t want to invest in the vaccine [because it’s useless]...... hmmm.............
Should be a yuge story but