Biden to Send 20 Million More Vaccines Abroad
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Biden Dips Into U.S. Vaccine Supply to Send 20 Million Doses AbroadPresident Biden, heeding widespread calls to step up his response to the pandemic’s surge abroad, said on Monday that his administration would send 20 million doses of federally authorized coronavirus vaccine overseas in June — the first time he has pledged to give away doses that could be used in the United States.
The donation is another step toward what Mr. Biden promised would be an “entirely new effort” to increase vaccine supplies and vastly expand manufacturing capacity, most of it in the United States. He also put Jeffrey Zients,...
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U.S. To Ship 20 Million Additional COVID Vaccine Doses OverseasPresident Biden on Monday announced his intention to ship surplus doses of the coronavirus vaccine to needy nations abroad, including millions of doses of the U.S.-authorized Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The majority of the planned shipments will be of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which does not yet have authorization for use in the United States.
"We need to help fight the disease around the world," Biden told reporters at a briefing on the nation's progress against the virus. "It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing...
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Biden to announce plan to ship 20 million doses of vaccine abroadPresident 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...
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