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Pfizer said it had millions of doses of vaccine sitting in a warehouse because the federal government hadn’t told it where to send them

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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine being prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Sunday. Morry Gash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
  • Pfizer released a statement Thursday to deny claims it was having issues producing its COVID-19 vaccine.
  • It came after officials in more than a dozen states complained that they were receiving fewer doses than promised and the US secretary of health and human services mentioned “manufacturing challenges.”
  • In its statement, Pfizer said it was “not having any production issues” and in fact had millions of doses sitting in a warehouse, awaiting government orders on where to ship them.
  • Two anonymous Trump administration officials told the Associated Press the doses were in storage on purpose, held back to ensure that people who had their first shot of the two-dose vaccine could get the second one.
  • Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

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