COVID-19 vaccines to cover 50 million people and to underwrite the drug makers' testing and manufacturing, the companies said on Friday.The award is the biggest yet from 'Operation Warp Speed', the White House initiative aimed at accelerating access to vaccines and treatments to fight COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.The deal, announced by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense, works out at a cost of around $42 per person inoculated.That is almost identical to the $40 per patient the U.S.