The Vaccine King: Inside Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s fast, fraught and lucrative distribution of a lifesaving shot

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Written By Stephanie Baker
 
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It’s not every day that a head of government goes to the airport to greet a cargo shipment, but the pandemic has changed many things. On Jan. 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu motorcaded to Ben Gurion International Airport, southeast of Tel Aviv, to watch a shipment of 700,000 vaccine doses from Pfizer Inc. emerge from a blue-and-white El Al Boeing 787-9.

“This is a great day for the state of Israel, with a huge shipment that has arrived,” Netanyahu said, exuding a confidence few world leaders have mustered since the crisis began. “I agreed with my friend, Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla, that we would bring shipment after shipment andcomplete the vaccination of the over-16 population in Israel during the month of March.” Bourla had thrown Netanyahu a political lifeline.

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