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Vaccines For Data: Israel's Pfizer Deal Drives Quick Rollout — And Privacy Worries

Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and agreed to share data from Israel's centralized trove of medical statistics. Privacy advocates have some misgivings.

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Daniel Estrin is NPR's international correspondent in Jerusalem.