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Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts) Fri Jun 11, 2021, 05:01 AM Jun 2021

Stephen Colbert - Samantha Power On Biden's Pledge To Donate 500 Million Vaccine Doses

"This Is Major" - Samantha Power On Biden's Pledge To Donate 500 Million Vaccine Doses

Former UN Ambassador and current USAID Administrator Samantha Power discusses the importance of America's pledge to donate 500 million vaccine doses to countries around the world.

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Stephen Colbert - Samantha Power On Biden's Pledge To Donate 500 Million Vaccine Doses (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 2021 OP

While laudable, that would be enough to fully vaccinate about 3.5% of the world population. Gaugamela Jun 2021 #1

Gaugamela

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1. While laudable, that would be enough to fully vaccinate about 3.5% of the world population.

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Fri Jun 11, 2021, 09:29 AM

Jun 2021

According to the Washington Post, it would cost about 66 billion to vaccinate the world. If we divide that among the G7 countries that would amount to 10 billion per country. In the world of defense spending that’s a rounding error. What’s more, it would actually make us safer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/07/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

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