President Biden will formally announce his plan today for the government to buy and then donate 500 million coronavirus vaccine doses
Biden arrived in the United Kingdom on the heels of his administration’s most significant contribution to the fight to extinguish the pandemic worldwide:The deal between the White House and Pfizer to send 200 million Covid vaccine doses to the developing world beginning in August, with the remaining 300 million to be delivered by the first half of next year.
The administration began sending abroad the first of its initially pledged 80 million-shot donation last week, after making public its long-expected plan for prioritizing foreign requests. These additional 500 million doses — which were purchased at an undisclosed “not-for-profit price” — prove that the U.S. will be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday.
The opposition is predominantly concentrated in conservative areas that have also been wracked by drug addiction, such as West Virginia and counties in Washington state and Indiana. And it comes at a perilous moment for the country overall: The pandemic has helped push overdose deaths to
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