{"id":110312,"date":"2020-07-22T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/u-s-agrees-to-pay-pfizer-and-biontech-2-billion-for-100-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:03:02","slug":"u-s-agrees-to-pay-pfizer-and-biontech-2-billion-for-100-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/u-s-agrees-to-pay-pfizer-and-biontech-2-billion-for-100-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"U.S. agrees to pay Pfizer and BioNTech $2 billion for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-agrees-to-pay-pfizer-and-biontech-2-billion-for-100-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will pay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=PFE\">Pfizer<\/a> and biotech firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=BNTX\">BioNTech<\/a> $1.95 billion to produce and deliver 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine if it proves safe and effective, the <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.pfizer.com\/investor-news\/press-release-details\/2020\/Pfizer-and-BioNTech-Announce-an-Agreement-with-U.S.-Government-for-up-to-600-Million-Doses-of-mRNA-based-Vaccine-Candidate-Against-SARS-CoV-2\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">companies announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the largest such deal between the government and companies racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the U.S. can acquire 500 million additional doses, the Department of Health and Human Services said. Germany-based BioNTech and Pfizer are jointly developing four potential vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will pay Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech $1.95 billion to produce and deliver 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine if it proves safe and effective, the companies announced Wednesday. It was the largest such deal between the government and companies racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Under the agreement, the U.S. can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}