After weeks of internal deliberations, the Biden administration finally announced which countries will share in the first Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the U.S. to help end the pandemic
After weeks of internal deliberations, the Biden administration finally announced Thursday which countries will share in the first Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the U.S. to help end the pandemic.
“We had an obligation to try and move as quickly as possible to get [the doses] over there,” one senior health official said. “We’ve got plenty of doses. Now we’re finally moving. But we didn’t need to take this long to do it.” Officials also split on how the U.S. should decide where to send the vaccine. Dozens of countries across the world were at risk for uncontrollable virus surges. The U.S. government wanted to ensure that the doses it did ship would be distributed equitably and help the maximum number of people possible.
The donation will come from the U.S. stockpile of Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. But that was not the original plan. The administration originally planned to start donations by drawing on 60 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine manufactured at a Baltimore plant — but those shots have been tied up in a lengthy Food and Drug Administration safety review.
The doses were tested for contamination, but the agency worried that low levels of contamination could escape detection. The FDA ultimately asked AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson to run risk assessments of the potential effects of any trace contamination in the Emergent doses — contamination that would not necessarily impact the overall safety of the vaccine. The agency took extra care with its review in part because the administration planned to ship many of the doses abroad.
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