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by colpabar 1914 days ago
>I'm curious how Israel out-did us though.

They paid more.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-will-reportedly-pay-mor...
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maxerickson 1914 days ago
That's presumably for EU production of the vaccine.

So Israel probably didn't really compete with the US for it.

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colpabar 1914 days ago
first paragraph:

>Israel will pay a premium price for the millions of COVID-19 vaccines it has ordered from US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, over 40 percent more than the US government or the European Union, Channel 13 news reported Sunday.

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maxerickson 1914 days ago
Pfizer has a Covid-19 vaccine production facilities in the EU and is selling the vaccines produced there to countries that aren't the US.
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