$1.24B only buys ~2hrs of federal gov't

But we probably could've gotten more for "our" money than this garbage here.

CDC buys $1.24B worth of Pfizer COVID jabs for 2026-2027

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have handed Republican leaders a political grenade with the pin pulled.

On June 1, the agency awarded Pfizer contracts worth roughly $1.24 billion for COVID-19 vaccines for the remainder of fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2027, including hundreds of millions for pediatric doses and additional funds for adults.

The award raises serious questions: What demand projections, dose assumptions, or safety rationale justified such a purchase? And why would the government commit more than a billion taxpayer dollars to a product many Americans have stopped using, and which some no longer trust?

As of spring 2026, uptake for the COVID-19 vaccine was quite low. Nine percent of children were getting it and 17 percent of adults. Only 3 percent of parents plan to have it given to their children.

For those “Make America Healthy Again” voters essential to President Trump’s 2024 coalition, the optics are hard to ignore: The government that promised health reform has committed massive public funds to Pfizer, even as trust in and use of their product collapses."