Sounds like Boner Boys are looking to sell a 2,500/shot vaccine in India. The "India variant" was created in an American lab, combined with API export curbs, and "gunboat diplomacy," to get India to raise vaccine prices and allow market access to all the firms that missed the bus with the vaccine (J&J, Pfizer, etc.).
The onus is on Modi to prove we're not a complete pushover like we were in the 1980s. He has to prove that he has the grit of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (of pulling off Pokhran '98). He should strike a deal with Putin and bring Sputnik-V mass-production in India, and not only prevent J&J/Pfizer, but also start terrorizing these firms' existing investments in India. Turn the pressure around.
Pfizer said during the pandemic phase it will supply the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA vaccine only through government contracts.
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