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by refurb 1867 days ago
No, they aren't like Fosun. Fosun took possession of finished product and sent it to people doing the vaccinations. That's it.

Pfizer did: 1) scaled up production to hundreds of millions of doses, 2) ran clinical trials in dozens of countries for tens of thousands of patients, 3) put together all the regulatory documentation for dozens of countries, including negotiations with regulators, 4) then developed a worldwide logistics system to get the vaccine where it's needed, including to local distributors like Fosun.