STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Moderna gets $1.5 billion U.S. contract for Covid-19 vax; state out-of-pocket caps saved residents money

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Moderna (MRNA) agreed to provide the U.S. government 100 million doses of its experimental coronavirus vaccine in exchange for more than $1.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal writes. The agreement is the latest with the U.S., which has already secured hundreds of millions of doses from other companies. In this latest deal, the federal government will provide the Moderna vaccine to people in the U.S. free of charge and have the option to purchase up to an additional 400 million doses.

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