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US to share 80 million
coronavirus vaccine doses with other countries |
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President
Joe Biden said Monday his administration would share millions more doses
of Covid-19 vaccines with other countries in addition to the 60 million doses of
the AstraZeneca vaccine he has already committed to
sharing by July 4. Biden
said the US would share at least 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the
end of next month, totaling 80 million doses that are set to be sent abroad.
Those additional 20 million doses will consist of Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson
& Johnson vaccines, as well as AstraZeneca, which has yet to be approved
by federal regulators before being shipped overseas. That effort is underway. "We
need to help fight the disease around the world to keep us safe here at home
and to do the right thing helping other people. It's the right thing to do.
It's the smart thing to do. It's the strong thing to do," Biden said in
remarks delivered at the White House. In a
statement, former CDC direct Dr. Tom Frieden said that this was “another step
toward ending the COVID-19 pandemic." “COVID-19
has shown the world that we are all joined by our humanity; uncontrolled
spread of the virus anywhere in the world is a threat to people
everywhere," Frieden said. |
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