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The U.S. To Donate 500 Million Pfizer Vaccines

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  • In news first reported by the Washington Post, The US will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to share through the global COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year.
  • 200 million doses are expected to be shared this year, with the balance to be donated in the first half of 2022.
  • National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Mr Biden was committed to sharing vaccines because it was in the public health and strategic interests of the US.
  • The announcement comes a week after the White House unveiled its plans to donate an initial allotment of 25 million doses of surplus vaccine overseas, mostly through the United Nations-backed COVAX program, promising infusions for South and Central America, Asia, Africa and others at a time of glaring shortages abroad.

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