Is There a Flip Side to This?

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Fiser is offering a lower rate to low income, lower income countries. So does desfiser play a role at all in those countries not getting the vaccines that they need? I think there's a big, stark contrast here. And so i had a lot of people in my m p wo said to me, you the problem isas we put in these orders, and yet then see other countries getting them first. This is why we need more vacine equity around the world.

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