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The Pfizer- BioNTech mRNA Covid shot is poised to shatter the single-year sales record for a drug. This year only, though. Photographer: Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP via Getty Images/Bloomberg
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A $27 billion vaccine is not pharma's new normal

Winning the Covid vaccine race is going to generate heaping piles of money for Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna this year. How long will it last?

FILE PHOTO: A policeman asks people who came to receive a dose of a coronavirus vaccine to leave as they stand outside the gate of a vaccination centre which was closed due to unavailability of the supply of COVID-19 vaccine, in Mumbai, India. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
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India's vaccine output likely to fall short of target, sources say