The Trump administration will pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion for a December delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine the pharmaceutical company is developing, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced Wednesday. The US could buy another 500 million doses under the agreement, Azar said. The agreement is part of President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed vaccine program, under which multiple COVID-19 vaccines are being developed simultaneously. The program aims to deliver 300 million doses of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021. Azar said the contract brings to five the number of potential coronavirus vaccines that are under development with US funding.

Source: Daily Mail July 22, 2020 14:09 UTC