Biden boosting world vaccine sharing commitment to 80M doses

[bhaigan]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks as domestic demand for shots drops and global disparities in distribution have grown more evident.

The doses will come from existing production of Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine stocks, marking the first time that U.S.-controlled doses of vaccines authorized for use in the country will be shared overseas. It will boost the global vaccine sharing commitment from the U.S. to 80 million.

“We know America will never be fully safe until the pandemic that’s raging globally is under control,” Biden said at the White House.

The announcement comes on top of the Biden’s administration’s prior commitment to share about 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is not yet authorized for use in the U.S., by the end of June. The AstraZeneca doses will be available to ship once they clear a safety review by the Food and Drug Administration.

Biden also tapped COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients to lead the administration’s efforts to share doses with the world.

“Our nation’s going to be the arsenal of vaccines for the rest of the world,” Biden said. He added that, compared to other countries like Russia and China that have sought to leverage their domestically produced doses, “we will not use our vaccines to secure favors from other countries.”

The Biden administration hasn’t yet said how the new commitment of vaccines will be shared or which countries will receive them.

To date, the U.S. has shared about 4.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine with Canada and Mexico. Additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine manufactured in the U.S. have begun to be exported as the company has met its initial contract commitments to the federal government.

The U.S. has faced growing pressure to share more of its vaccine stockpile with the world as interest in vaccines has waned domestically.

“While wealthy countries continue ramping up vaccinations, less than 1 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses globally have been administered to people in low-income countries,” said Tom Hart the acting CEO of the ONE Campaign. “The sooner the US and other wealthy countries develop a coordinated strategy for sharing vaccine doses with the world’s most vulnerable, the faster we will end the global pandemic for all.”

More than 157 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 123 million are full vaccinated against the virus. Biden hopes the U.S. will have 160 million people fully vaccinated by July Fourth.

Globally, more than 3.3 million people are confirmed to have died from the coronavirus. The U.S. has seen the largest confirmed loss of life from COVID-19, at more than 586,000 people.

[bhaigan]

 

 

[jawaani_jaaneman]

US still needs to vaccinate majority of its population and children's vaccination is yet to begin..

How can US do such a commitment ?

endi ie anyayam ?

[bhaigan]

9 minutes ago, jawaani_jaaneman said:

US still needs to vaccinate majority of its population and children's vaccination is yet to begin..

How can US do such a commitment ?

endi ie anyayam ?

mostly J&J and AstraZeneca(covidsheild) vaccines will be sent to India

[DummyVariable]

More needs to be done tbf. Inka African countries lo ela undo situation.

[ring_master]

50 minutes ago, jawaani_jaaneman said:

US still needs to vaccinate majority of its population and children's vaccination is yet to begin..

How can US do such a commitment ?

endi ie anyayam ?

Modi saab nunchi inspired anta le... however majority of the high risk group is already vaccinated in US.. India lo adi kuda ledu 

[jawaani_jaaneman]

2 hours ago, bhaigan said:

mostly J&J and AstraZeneca(covidsheild) vaccines will be sent to India

Other countries might need these vaccines much more than India does at the moment..

Cases kastha taggutunayi...vaccine availability perugutundi India la...We will be in better shape in the days to come. However ie vaccine numbers elago saripovu and May make little difference..

[bhaigan]

2 hours ago, DummyVariable said:

More needs to be done tbf. Inka African countries lo ela undo situation.

African countries lot better bhayya, valu asalu no masks from long time ago

[hunkyfunky2]

2 hours ago, jawaani_jaaneman said:

US still needs to vaccinate majority of its population and children's vaccination is yet to begin..

How can US do such a commitment ?

endi ie anyayam ?

Read it carefully...not much demand for J&J here... due to their past record and efficacy concerns. 

Astra zenca... USA never made this available for public though they paid for it...it was their backup plan.

 

 

[DummyVariable]

25 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

African countries lot better bhayya, valu asalu no masks from long time ago

Still they need to be vaccinated. Who knows which variant can attack you. We saw what happened with Ebola there.

[bhaigan]

18 minutes ago, DummyVariable said:

Still they need to be vaccinated. Who knows which variant can attack you. We saw what happened with Ebola there.

Ok

[DummyVariable]

2 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

Ok

African Union was the largest consumer of vaccines in the world before Covid. Akkada job assignments padithe you have to carry vaccine passports - many of my colleagues have one.

[allbakara]

1 hour ago, jawaani_jaaneman said:

Other countries might need these vaccines much more than India does at the moment..

Cases kastha taggutunayi...vaccine availability perugutundi India la...We will be in better shape in the days to come. However ie vaccine numbers elago saripovu and May make little difference..

Bongule keyboard mundhu koosoni emaina chepthav...still daily 2+ lakhs cases vasthunnai, 4k chachipotunnaru...indian politicians em peekaru immediately...any help is great help which saves few lives 

[jawaani_jaaneman]

17 minutes ago, allbakara said:

Bongule keyboard mundhu koosoni emaina chepthav...still daily 2+ lakhs cases vasthunnai, 4k chachipotunnaru...indian politicians em peekaru immediately...any help is great help which saves few lives 

ehe nuvu nee lolli...america odu india ki istha ani ananu kuda ledu kani digindu ayya natakam batch..

[bhaigan]

30 minutes ago, allbakara said:

Bongule keyboard mundhu koosoni emaina chepthav...still daily 2+ lakhs cases vasthunnai, 4k chachipotunnaru...indian politicians em peekaru immediately...any help is great help which saves few lives 

are you @betapilli ?