{"id":700901,"date":"2026-06-23T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=700901"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:36:54","slug":"hhs-says-no-decision-on-covid-vaccine-deal-with-pfizer-but-questions-persist-about-1-24-billion-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=700901","title":{"rendered":"HHS Says No Decision on COVID Vaccine Deal With Pfizer, But Questions Persist About $1.24 Billion Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The controversy began after publicly available federal contracting records showed two CDC contract awards to Pfizer with a combined potential value of approximately $1.24 billion for pediatric and adult COVID-19 vaccines during fiscal years 2026 and 2027.<\/h4>\n<p>However, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed back on the publicly available documents, saying the government had not completed the purchases for vaccines.\u00a0\u201cThe claim that CDC has already spent $1.24 billion on COVID-19 vaccines is simply wrong,\u201d Kennedy wrote<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s statement addressed a central point of contention by distinguishing between the existence of a contract vehicle and the obligation or expenditure of federal funds.\u00a0<em><strong>However, several questions remain unanswered.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tdefender.substack.com\/p\/hhs-no-decision-pfizer-covid-vaccine-deal-questions-contracts-over-1-billion-dollars?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2173740&amp;post_id=203243029&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=8difb1&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/tdefender.substack.com\/p\/hhs-no-decision-pfizer-covid-vaccine-deal-questions-contracts-over-1-billion-dollars?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy began after publicly available federal contracting records showed two CDC contract awards to Pfizer with a combined potential value of approximately $1.24 billion for pediatric and adult COVID-19 vaccines during fiscal years 2026 and 2027. However, U.S. Health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=700901\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700902,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700901\/revisions\/700902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}