Biden emphasized in an announcement that the 500 million donated vaccine doses for global distribution would come with “no strings attached”
President Joe Biden on Thursday formally announced U.S. plans to procure and donate 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses while making his first overseas trip, as part of a speech steeped in the imagery of World War II and other eras defined by their need for urgent collective action.
Vaccines procured as part of this effort will begin being sent out in August, with roughly 200 million doses expected to be delivered by the end of the year, Biden said. The plan, which was negotiated by the Biden administration and the company over the past several weeks, nearly doubles the federal government’s original plan to purchase up to 600 million doses from Pfizer. The U.S’s vaccine strategy has— such as Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, who is scheduled to meet with Biden on Tuesday — who think it has strained production capacity in Europe and elsewhere.
Biden’s announcement comes before several of the world’s leaders are scheduled to congregate in Cornwall for a G-7 summit, where they are also expected to roll out a similar goodwill vaccine gesture.
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