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The U.S. paid $456 million in funds for Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, paid Moderna's almost a billion bucks for their candidate vaccine, $1.2 billion in support for AstraZeneca's candidate vaccine, $1.6 billion in funds to support the large-scale manufacturing of Novavax's vaccine candidate, $1.95 billion in funds to Pfizer for the large-scale manufacturing and nationwide distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate(july22), approximately $2 billion in funds to support the advanced development, including clinical trials and large scale manufacturing, of Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) investigational adjuvanted vaccine, etc. etc.

The reason we did not PRE-order more vaccine doses is that we did not know who would come up with a viable vaccine candidate so we ordered something like a million doses each from about five or six different pharmas with the option of ordering more. There was no use pre-ordering from one company not knowing if they would have a successful vaccine candidate.
I realize that the idea is to disparage our Gov. for the past four years in an attempt to manipulate politics, but the fact is that this is an amazing accomplishment and we and the world was lucky to have America's leadership to push for results so fast and to cut the red tape that usually slows things down to years instead of months.
Taken from HHS.gov website