This has nothing to do with the relentless campaign to talk down the - cost price ($4) - AstraZeneca vaccine of course. Nor the repeated banner headlines about the risk of blood clotting (about 0.0005% I believe). Resulting in the widespread refusal by many to accept the jab. As has happened here in Cyprus:
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.c ... e-revenue/
Pfizer has just hiked it's price per shot to $23, on a 1.8 billion EU order. No brown envelopes involved of course.
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