Pfizer's move is indefensible. Yes, squeeze every dose we can. But cutting deliveries from 40M to 33M vials for the same price cannot be justified. Especially when many places lack the special "low dead space" syringes needed to get the "extra" dose. nytimes.com/2021/01/22/hea…
"The world’s largest syringe maker does not have the capacity to substantially increase U.S. supplies of specialty syringes needed to squeeze more doses from Pfizer's vaccine vials in the coming weeks, an executive said." reuters.com/article/us-hea…
This image was very helpful for me to understand the difference between low dead space syringes and needles from the standard ones. (Thanks Harm Reduction Journal and whomever thought to come up with such a publication.) harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 
Pfizer has partial fix. Same price per dose. But “Vials accompanied by regular syringes will be counted as 5 doses against Pfizer’s contract for 200M shots, and those accompanied by special syringes will count as 6 shots toward contract fulfillment.” washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
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