Watchdog Groups File Suits, FOIA To Obtain COVID-19 Vaccine Contracts

By John Wilkerson / October 16, 2020 at 2:39 PM
In three separate efforts, two consumer groups filed suits to try to force the government to hand over coronavirus-related contracts with drug makers and another group of government-oversight nonprofits filed Freedom of Information Act requests demanding access to contracts funneled through the private government contract management firm Advanced Technology International. Reporters and other non-government watchdog groups have been unable to get the government to release the details of the contracts worth billions of taxpayer dollars. Advocates for lower drug prices...


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