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Shares for vaccine makers fell sharply Thursday on the heels of the Biden administration’s Wednesday announcement it will support a global push to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 shots.   Among companies with COVID-19 vaccines, shares of Pfizer fell 1.7 percent and were among the biggest weights on the benchmark S&P 500 index before rebounding … Read more

The scientist who developed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has hit out at the Biden administration’s support for waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus shots.  Suspending patent enforcement for vaccines ‘will not increase the number of doses we will have available within the next 12 months,’ Dr Özlem Türeci, Chief Medical Officer at Pfizer partner BioNTech, told … Read more