USA To Deliver 25M Vaccines To Poorer Countries

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The U.S. government will send 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, the first time President Joe Biden’s administration has shared shots it could have used at home.

Through the World Health Organization-backed Covax program, the U.S. plans to distribute an initial 6 million shots to Central and South America, 7 million to Asia including hard-hit India and 5 million to Africa, the White House said in a statement.

The U.S. will directly send another 6 million shots to places including Mexico, Canada, South Korea and the Palestinian territories, the White House said. Overall, the White House plans to send 75% of its total donated doses to the Covax program.

“As the days get brighter and brighter at home, we’re focused on driving progress to help the pandemic around the globe,” White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said at a briefing Thursday.

The move is a watershed moment for the U.S., which secured the first hundreds of millions of doses made on its soil for domestic use but intends to be an engine of vaccine production globally. As vaccine demand wanes at home, Biden is facing calls internationally to release the U.S. stockpile of shots made by Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson in order to curb the rise of coronavirus variants.

The White House described Thursday’s announcement as only the first tranche of a plan to begin supplying the world with vaccines.

Zients said the 25 million doses to be released first will be comprised of shots from Pfizer, Moderna and J&J. White House officials didn’t specify breakdowns beyond that, or say whether particular countries will get a particular vaccine.

The Covax donations will go to dozens of countries across Central America, South America, Asia and Africa including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Brazil and Argentina, along with India.

Recipients of the six million doses sent directly also will include Ukraine, Kosovo, Haiti, Georgia, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, according to the White House. The U.S. will retain control of where the shots donated to Covax are ultimately distributed, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in the briefing. Sullivan said India will receive doses directly as well as from Covax, giving it a supply from both channels.

The so-called Northern Triangle nations of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras will receive Covax doses, while Mexico will receive doses directly from the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the region next week and called the leaders of Mexico, Guatemala and India about the vaccine distribution plan before Thursday’s announcement, her office said.

Thursday’s announcement included a framework to distribute shots among countries based on need. Biden has said his administration will donate at least 80 million doses by the end of this month, though that included 60 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc’s shot that are mired in a safety review and aren’t yet available for use. The White House reiterated on Thursday that it would send at least 80 million vaccines abroad by the end of June.

 

 

Source:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/biden-team-to-send-25-million-doses-of-u-s-vaccines-abroad

 

¡Hermanote! is coming, world. We do not forget about you

 

[PartySick 172,471]

Awesome. Now that things in the States are going well, we can start helping others.

Maybe we should send some to France so the Chromatica Ball can be moved back to this year

[Economy 52,842]

Great now my Country need to do the same. We almost let a bunch of Astrazeneca doses just expire and be thrown out cuz they were just sitting there and most Provinces dont even wanna use or push them anymore yet we have more orders of them coming

[Better Day 5,766]

As long as Biden has enough to cover the rest of those wanting to be vaccinated in the US

[FATCAT 60,888]

Just now, Miss Dolly said:

As long as Biden has enough to cover the rest of those wanting to be vaccinated in the US

We have more than enough, that's why these are getting sent out

We also crossed the 50% threshold for adults vaccinated, so we're not far from having this thing in our rear-view.

[Economy 52,842]

10 hours ago, FATCAT said:

We have more than enough, that's why these are getting sent out

We also crossed the 50% threshold for adults vaccinated, so we're not far from having this thing in our rear-view.

Dont get over confident... with variants being that much more transmissible heard immunity likely requires a much higher threshold than originally thought. Some say upwards of 90%

 

So we definitely still need more vaccinations

[julz 8,048]

Great news indeed!