Pfizer's CEO says Jared Kushner wanted him to divert vaccine supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin

[AZProgressive]

Pfizer's CEO says Jared Kushner wanted him to divert vaccine supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin America to boost the US's COVID-19 jab stockpile

Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bourla, said in a book excerpt published by Forbes on Monday that he and Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, once had a "heated" debate over whether the US should receive additional COVID-19 vaccine doses first.

Bourla said he and Kushner, who in the early days of the pandemic was the head of a COVID-19 shadow task force, disagreed over the timeline to supply the additional 100 million doses of Pfizer's vaccine that the Trump administration had ordered. Bourla wrote that the conflict arose because the US was topping up on its original order of 100 million doses, but other countries had already signed contracts with Pfizer to secure their vaccine doses.

"Jared was asking for a very aggressive delivery plan to the U.S. for the additional 100 million doses. He wanted it all in the second quarter of 2021," Bourla wrote. "To do that, we would have had to take supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin American countries, all of which had placed their orders earlier than the U.S. and were expecting the vaccine in the second quarter."

Bourla said the debate "became heated" when he refused. He said he reminded Kushner that he had made it clear to Moncef Slaoui, the chief advisor to the Trump team's vaccine-development program, that Pfizer would not take doses from other countries to give them to the US.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/pfizer-s-ceo-says-jared-kushner-wanted-him-to-divert-vaccine-supplies-from-canada-japan-and-latin-america-to-boost-the-us-s-covid-19-jab-stockpile/ar-AAUKVep?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

[NBachers]

1. So who screwed up and didn't order them for the US in time?

"To do that, we would have had to take supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin American countries, all of which had placed their orders earlier than the U.S.”

[underpants]

2. Jared was trying to cover for his first two monumental f ups

Testing and PPE

A contract is a contract. I guess they didn’t teach him that at Harvard.

[magicarpet]

3. Oh for goodness sake's,.... Jared Kushner is just a good business man.

He found a way to profit handsomely off the Covid pandemic crisis. Self enrichment at the expense of others,... That is The American Way.

Yea Jared,... You don't get filthy rich letting opportunities slip on by without fully exploiting them to your gain and everyone else's detriment.