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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Hospitals grapple with extra dose of Pfizer vaccine; FDA panel meets to review Moderna vaccine

With the Covid-19 vaccine in short supply, hospital pharmacists found themselves throwing away one in every six doses of the first vaccines distributed this week in the U.S.
Source: Alex Hogan/STAT

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