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- Opened vaccines on mkt access basis
- Allowed states & pvt hospitals open procurement
- Let SII & Bharat Biotech raise prices. Knew states would be in disarray due to no budgets & no strategy in place

#COVID19 #COVIDEmergency

- Pfizer & Moderna would have been happy at the price rise. A country of Indias size with annual boosters strategy in place was a revenue goldmine!
- But as expected opposition & states started asking for price reduction
- Govt now in & #39;talks& #39; to reduce prices & already the effect

- Suddenly the whole & #39;India collapsing& #39; narrative hard work that & #39;opened& #39; the mkt in first place is now shaky for Pfizer & Moderna
- On top of this, Covaxin is now even spoken by Dr. Fauci to control the B1.617 variant. Demand for it will rise globally!

- Govt knew this & already gave advance funds to ramp up production
- Our NSA spoke to US NSA for unblocking raw materials for Covishield. Why NSA? Clear msg to US of partnership impact! Immediately blocks removed.

- With prices of vaccines down & likely to come down, mkt gone for Pfizer & Moderna. So much so for their & #39;won& #39;t give test data etc& #39; tantrums!

And hence you suddenly see some new & #39;mktng agents& #39; coming out today for Pfizer. Too late though!

#AstraZeneca #Pfizer #Moderna #vaccine