Polish health minister appeals to Pfizer to amend vaccine contract
Adam Niedzielski, the Polish health minister, has called on the shareholders of the US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer to amend its contract with the EU for Covid-19 vaccines as Europe no longer needs so many.
The EU is still expecting to receive hundreds of millions of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines despite the epidemic having been largely contained. Poland and several other member states have pushed the European Commission to start negotiations with Pfizer in a bid to reduce the supply and the related spending.
In an open letter to Pfizer shareholders published on Tuesday, Niedzielski said that the firm's deliveries made no sense in the current environment.
"Despite the stabilised epidemic situation in European Union countries, Pfizer is still planning to deliver hundreds of millions of vaccines to Europe," he wrote. "This is utterly pointless from the public health point of view, as most of them will be destroyed due to the limited shelf life and limited demand."
Niedzielski also expressed disappointment with the state of the current negotiations. Read More…
