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Brazil ignored Pfizer’s offers of COVID-19 vaccine for months last year, company says
Pfizer repeatedly offered to sell its COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil’s Health Ministry between August and November last year, but got no answer from the government, Pfizer’s chief executive for Latin America told lawmakers on Thursday.A Senate commission is investigating whether President Jair Bolsonaro’s government mishandled the pandemic by failing to secure vaccines in time to curb a surge that has killed more than 430,000 Brazilians — the worst COVID-19 death toll outside the United States. Brazil detects 1st case of South Africa COVID-19 variant as deaths skyrocket Pfizer executive Carlos Murillo said that on Sept.