US to send 4 million AstraZeneca COVID vaccine doses to Canada, Mexico

The United States will send 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Canada and Mexico, the White House said Thursday.

The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is still pending FDA approval in the US but has been approved in other countries, will be shipped out to prevent those doses from continuing to go unused.

“Many countries, as you know, have already approved AstraZeneca[‘s vaccine] and also have requested our doses from the United States,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a briefing, adding that while this includes Canada and Mexico, “it’s certainly not limited to Canada and Mexico.”