IOC to provide Tokyo Olympic athletes with Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses

The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday it will provide athletes attending this summer's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics with doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, free of charge.The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been approved in Japan, although its rollout has been progressing slowly. The IOC has insisted that participants at this summer's Olympics and Paralympics need not be vaccinated to participate.According to the IOC statement, the vaccine doses donated by the U.S. and German companies will be made available to national Olympic committees t…READ FULL ARTICLE