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Japan Likely to Slash Moderna Vaccine Purchase, Pfizer Single-Sourcing Plan Nixed
The Japanese government plans to take a pass on the idea to single-source COVID-19 mRNA vaccines from Pfizer for inoculations from this fall, moving to purchase Moderna’s jabs as well, but with a significant cutback on their doses, Jiho has…
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