White House announces 400 million vaccination doses made to global effort
Source: Washington Post
White House announces 400 million vaccination doses made to global effort
By Amy Cheng, Adela Suliman and Brittany Shammas
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White House officials announced Wednesday that the United States has donated more than 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to other countries under the Biden administration.
White House covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said the U.S. total is higher than any other country’s.
Last summer, the Biden administration ramped up its contributions to the global vaccination effort, announcing that it would buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Those doses were to be distributed through Covax, the World Health Organization-backed initiative targeting low- and middle-income countries. Covax promised to deliver 2 billion doses last year, but it fell well short, delivering less than half that amount.
Global vaccine inequity has persisted since the shots became available. About 10 billion doses have been distributed worldwide, but they have been concentrated in wealthy nations, The Washington Post reported.
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