Biden to announce plan to ship 20 million doses of vaccine abroad

President Joe Biden announced plans to send 20 million doses of U.S.-authorized COVID-19 vaccines abroad by the end of June.

"I'm announcing we will also share U.S.-authorized vaccine doses of Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, as they become available, with the rest of the world as well. The United States will share at least 20 million of those doses, that extra supply with other countries," Biden said on Monday.

The plan to send 20 million doses to be sent within the next six weeks is in addition to the administration's pledge to send as many as 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, once it is deemed safe in the U.S. in the coming months, to other countries.

"This means over the next six weeks, the United States of America will send 80 million doses overseas," Biden said. "That represents 13% of the vaccines produced by the United States by the end of June. This will be more vaccines than any country has actually shared to date."