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[quote=Anonymous]Uptake of the new booster has been lower than expected in Germany as well, even with their targeted recommendation for just the elderly & vulnerable. This is tricky as the EU has contracted with Pfizer to receive a pre-set number of doses through 2027. The EU has already been struggling with an excess of vaccines from earlier in the pandemic as well:
"At least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries at the height of the pandemic [2021] have since been thrown away at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of €4 billion, an analysis by POLITICO reveals. ... Many of these [doses] now lie in landfills across the Continent. ... The [Pfizer] contract has already been renegotiated by the European Commission under pressure from EU countries suffering from a vaccine glut. Both Poland and Hungary stopped accepting vaccines and are being sued by Pfizer for non-payment. ... In the meantime, the jabs will keep coming, with the revised contract with Pfizer locking European countries into buying vaccines until at least 2027."
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-bonfire-covid-vaccines-coronavirus-waste-europe-analysis/[/quote]

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