The Biden administration will buy and donate 500 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses in an effort to inoculate more of the global population.
An initial 200 million doses will be distributed between August and the end of this year, with the remaining 300 million to come during the first half of 2022. The doses will be reserved for low- and middle-income countries and distributed by Covax, the WHO-backed initiative to share COVID-19 vaccines across the world.
“The United States is providing these half billion doses with no strings attached. No strings attached,” Biden said. “Our vaccine donations don’t include pressure for favors or potential concessions. We’re doing this to save lives.” The calls to share vaccines have grown stronger in recent weeks as COVID-19 cases have declined in the U.S. and surged in other countries, the newspaper reported. More than half of the populations in the U.S. and U.K. have been vaccinated, as compared with less than 2% in Africa.
Biden has tapped Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 coordinator, to handle the U.S. global vaccination strategy, the newspaper reported. Zients has worked on the Pfizer deal for more than a month, and the White House wanted to announce it during the G-7 summit.
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