Shares of Pfizer (PFE), Moderna (MRNA), and BioNTech (BNTX) are lower around midday after the Washington Post reported that health officials in the Trump Administration plan to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots. Shares of Covid-19 vaccine makers Pfizer fell 3%, Moderna declined 7%, BioNTech dropped 8%, and Novavax (NVAX) declined nearly 3%.
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