As soon as Emergent completed its acquisition of the Sanofi smallpox jab, Kadlec moved to increase the government’s stockpile of these worthless and dangerous vaccines. Sanofi Pasteur had been charging the stockpile $4.27 per dose and had five years remaining on a ten-year government contract worth about $425 million. The El-Hibris initially sought only a modest price increase, but Kadlec generously finalized a sweetheart deal with his friends and former business partners, doubling the five-year term that the El-Hibris had requested to ten years. Kadlec also doubled the number of doses per
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