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A headline with nothing behind it is so much my image of twitter.  Useless, possibly false or faked or foolish.  We can't know.

General Perna did make it very clear that he chose the estimate of the amount that would be available for the initial shipment based upon the day he thought the EUA would go out, and presumably based on what Pfizer told him.

A week ago, the 6.4M doses was spoken of as "initial allocation".  I spent a long time last night reviewing last week's briefing and today's.  As you saw, I had trouble putting the two together.  We all took it as doses to be sent out.  Two states gave their allocation at a level that was a better match for the 3.2M doses.  My impression yesterday was one of evasion, half-baked reasoning, confusing statements, and avoiding answering questions.  (At one point, he indicated he couldn't remember the 2nd half of a question and asked to be reminded.  Then he answered a different question (not the one asked) related to this point).

If Pfizer did cut back, this may be the mysterious "headline" he mentioned.  (Something like "People shouldn't get distracted by a single headline" when it comes to getting the vaccine. It seemed odd that he spent a fair amount of time telling people to look at the data, make up their minds, and then do what is best for them.).  For this to make sense, I'm would guess they likely had to cut back based on product quality control issues (rather than something worse such as different efficacy or safety indications).

There was no change yesterday in the expectation of 40M doses in December (shared between Pfizer and Moderna).

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A headline with nothing behind it is so much my image of twitter.  Useless, possibly false or faked or foolish.  We can't know.

General Perna did make it very clear that he chose the estimate of the amount that would be available for the initial shipment based upon the day he thought the EUA would go out, and presumably based on what Pfizer told him.

A week ago, the 6.4M doses was spoken of as "initial allocation".  I spent a long time last night reviewing last week's briefing and today's.  As you saw, I had trouble putting the two together.  We all took it as doses to be sent out.  Two states gave their allocation at a level that was a better match for the 3.2M doses.  My impression yesterday was one of evasion, half-baked reasoning, confusing statements, and avoiding answering questions.  (At one point, he indicated he couldn't remember the 2nd half of a question and asked to be reminded.  Then he answered a different question (not the one asked) related to this point).

If Pfizer did cut back, this may be the mysterious "headline" he mentioned.  (Something like "People shouldn't get distracted by a single headline" when it comes to getting the vaccine. It seemed odd that he spent a fair amount of time telling people to look at the data, make up their minds, and then do what is best for them.).  For this to make sense, I'm would guess they likely had to cut back based on product quality control issues (rather than something worse such as different efficacy or safety indications).

There was no change yesterday in the expectation of 40M doses in December (shared between Pfizer and Moderna).