European efforts to secure potential COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson are mired in wrangles over price, payment method and potential liability costs, three EU officials told Reuters.
The United States, meanwhile, has already inked two supply agreements with AstraZeneca and Pfizer among other major funding deals. The two firms want the EU to pay them for 500 million doses only if their COVID-19 vaccine is authorised, one official told Reuters. Pfizer and BioNtech are also discussing liability issues with EU negotiators, a fourth person familiar with the talks told Reuters.The U.S. government last week agreed to pay nearly US$2 billion to buy enough of the vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech to inoculate 50 million people, but with payments conditional on their vaccine being successful in large clinical trials.
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