Biden to boost world vaccine sharing commitment to 80 million doses

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>President Joe Biden will announce that the US will share an additional 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks&comma; the White House said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The doses would come from existing US production of Pfizer&comma; Moderna or Johnson &amp&semi; Johnson vaccine stocks&comma; according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki&comma; who said more details would be released in the coming days&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It comes on top of the Biden administration’s prior commitment to share about 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine&comma; which is not yet authorised for use in the US&comma; by the end of June&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our nation’s going to be the arsenal of vaccines for the rest of the world&comma;” Mr Biden said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added that&comma; compared to other countries like Russia and China that have sought to leverage their domestically produced doses&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we will not use our vaccines to secure favours from other countries”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The AstraZeneca doses will be available to ship once they clear a safety review by the Food and Drug Administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Biden administration has yet to announce how the vaccines will be shared or which countries will receive them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To date&comma; the US has shared about 4&period;5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine with Canada and Mexico&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US has faced growing pressure to share more of its vaccine stockpile with the world as interest in vaccines has waned domestically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 157 million Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine&comma; and 123 million are full vaccinated against the virus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Biden hopes the US will have 160 million people fully vaccinated by July 4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Globally&comma; more than 3&period;3 million people are confirmed to have died from the coronavirus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US has seen the largest confirmed loss of life from Covid-19&comma; at more than 586&comma;000 people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ecef0d64506">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ecef0d64506'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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