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Biden Pledges Vaccine Aid to Tackle Global Coronavirus Crisis

President Biden announced on Thursday that the United States would donate doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to 100 countries over the next year in an effort to address the global coronavirus vaccine shortage.

I’m making an historic announcement regarding America’s leadership in the fight against Covid-19. America knows firsthand the tragedies of this pandemic, we’ve had, we’ve had more people die in the United States than anywhere in the world. Nearly 600,000 of our fellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents. We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery. The United States has now vaccinated 64 percent of our adults with at least one shot. Just 4 and a half months ago, we were only 5 percent with one shot. At my direction, the United States will purchase an additional half billion doses from Pfizer — the Pfizer vaccine — we’ll donate nearly 100 low- and lower-middle income countries. They will be the beneficiaries. Let me say that again. The United States will purchase a half a billion doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to donate to nearly 100 nations that are in dire need in the fight against this pandemic.

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Biden Pledges Vaccine Aid to Tackle Global Coronavirus Crisis

By Reuters June 10, 2021

President Biden announced on Thursday that the United States would donate doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to 100 countries over the next year in an effort to address the global coronavirus vaccine shortage.

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