‘Millions of doses’: Pfizer approached Australia first for vaccine deal

Federal bureaucrats turned down an offer from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in mid-2020 for a detailed meeting with top executives and the Health Minister about the company’s progress on a coronavirus vaccine, as other countries were already on track to signing deals for millions of doses.

In a letter to Health Minister Greg Hunt dated June 30, a Pfizer Australia representative said the company was working in collaboration with BioNTech to develop, test and manufacture an mRNA-base vaccine that could potentially “be deployed at unprecedented speed” to prevent COVID-19 infections. The first meeting was scheduled for July 10. Ms Schofield told a Senate COVID-19 committee hearing earlier this year no offer for doses was put on the table at that meeting, and it was a more general discussion about where the company was at in the process.But the documents reveal Pfizer was willing to provide a more detailed outline of the company’s approach in that meeting, if the Commonwealth representatives signed confidential disclosure agreements .

A follow-up email the next day suggested a “highly detailed” slide deck could be included if the non-disclosure was signed, so the company could run Australia through the development and trial process. “The vaccine rollout was always a race, but Australia started a lap behind because Scott Morrison’s government took a deliberate “wait and see” approach to vaccine deals,” he said.

rachelclun Perhaps the Bureaucrats sought from Pfizer a bounty of their other bestsellers, for their personal use that Pfizer refused . We'll never know the wheeling and dealing that went behind closed doors. Schemes of men and mice after all gave us this PANDEMIC

rachelclun So the facts are now out...did not meet quick enough

rachelclun That’s because the health minister didn’t believe in the vaccine now he’s telling us it’s working take it. Best thing you could do but not in 2020.

rachelclun We tried to put our own clever ‘Aussie twist’ on vaccine purchasing, and it blew up in our idiot faces. Every other country hedged their bets, we didn’t. Everyone involved with this incompetence should resign or be sacked. ScottMorrisonMP GregHuntMP

rachelclun Typical Labor - a bunch of Pfizer snobs keen on sowing mistrust with the AZ vaccine and risking the lives of the elderly

rachelclun Move on

rachelclun It was geopolitics from the very beginning. The vassal was told by the US to wait

rachelclun GregHuntMP this disaster is on you... Can you please resign?

rachelclun This will be interesting.

rachelclun A monumental disaster with this monumental experimental ‘JAB’

rachelclun Yet another reason to vote them out

rachelclun GregHuntMP RESIGN now and show some decency.

rachelclun They turned down an offer for a … meeting. Oh. The rumour was they turned down an offer of 40 Million doses, all to be delivered in January 2021. An offer of a meeting is a little different.

rachelclun That's what you get when you tap Scotty from marketing to be CEO

rachelclun That’s the LNPCorruptionParty: fast on rorts, slow on what they should have been doing in 2020

rachelclun its not a race ......

rachelclun Wasn't the plan to make AZ locally? If that was the plan, why would the Government then lead on Pfizer?

ColettaFrank rachelclun The Australian government increasingly operates with the mindset, strategy, and tactics of an incompetent and questionable organisation. auspol

rachelclun Was this before or after the BS fearmongering about AstraZeneca and TTS? I think having the ability to produce AZ vaccines in Melbourne gave the Govt a high degree of security. And before the media politicised AZ, why would we pay 10x more for a 'newer' vaccine technology?

rachelclun He's not a pharmacist He's Dave Sharma's mate

rachelclun

rachelclun PM said “it’s not a race” so instead we wait in Lockdown!!! 5 months behind the developed word!! Massive mistake.

rachelclun ScottMorrisonMP

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