U.S. cutting global donations of Pfizer COVID shots as demand slows

Yahoo! Finance Sep 22, 2022 05:55 PM ET

The United States is significantly cutting back the number of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses it will buy for donation to poorer nations this year, Pfizer said on Thursday, citing diminished demand for the shots in those countries. Pfizer said it agreed to reduce the number of doses it will deliver by year end to 600 million, down from the billion-dose commitment the U.S. government made a year ago. The United States will have an option to buy up to an additional 400 million shots for t...