Prognosis
Biden Hails Deal for 200 Million Vaccine Doses, Faster Shipments
- President finalized order with Pfizer and Moderna for doses
- Biden says U.S. on pace to receive 600 million doses by July
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President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. has finished deals for 100 million additional vaccine doses each from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., and that the companies would deliver new and existing orders quicker than projected.
The delivery dates for the orders, which the administration had already said it would place, were moved up to the end of July, Biden said in remarks Thursday at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland -- although Moderna said only that July was a “goal.” Delivery of a previously ordered batch was also sped up, to the end of May from the end of June, Biden said.