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Pfizer's Covid vaccine has saved millions of lives around the world. But with rising prices and record profits, is the drug firm profiteering from the pandemic?
- Programme: Dispatches
- Episode: The Torture Trail
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 1995
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