The Morrison government went against departmental advice to continue negotiating with another tenderer for a local mRNA vaccine capability and instead handed Moderna a deal that will pay the US pharma giant as much as $3 billion.
The upper costs revealed in a new audit eclipse the previously reported $2 billion price tag, while new details confirm a lack of initial competition and special allowances for Moderna in an arrangement …
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