Covid-19 roundup: Pfiz­er hus­tling up mil­lions of dos­es of vac­cine — de­tails $748M BioN­Tech deal; CDC tweaks stance on con­tro­ver­sial malar­ia drugs

Pfiz­er and BioN­Tech are ready to out­line the de­tails of their am­bi­tious al­liance on a Covid-19 mR­NA vac­cine for the world.

Their plan now is to start hu­man tri­als in a mat­ter of days, while ramp­ing up man­u­fac­tur­ing for a glob­al mar­ket well ahead of the first read­out. And the Ger­man mR­NA com­pa­ny — large­ly owned by the bil­lion­aire Stru­eng­mann broth­ers — is get­ting a big up­front to go with the col­lab­o­ra­tion.

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