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masterplum posted...

The US already had billions of vaccines locked up. Second most per person other than Canada. Dumb headline

Of vaccines currently shown to be successful?

As far as I can tell, the US has a contract for 100 million doses of Moderna's vaccine and 100 million doses of Pfizer's. They have an option to buy up to 500 million more of Pfizers, but per this story that's not gonna happen until June because of this decision by Trump. (And remember that each person needs two doses).

Then we apparently also have a contract for 300 million for Astrazeneca's vaccine, but that's non-negligibly less effective (and also requires two doses... or I guess 1.5 if they get enough testing on the seemingly more effective dosing regimen).

There are contracts with other companies, but those vaccines have not been shown to be effective yet (and even if they are, the deployment of other vaccines will significantly complicate those trials, since you're now making the control group forgo an effective vaccine and are slowing down the accumulation of data as vaccines are deployed).

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