US PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS US WILL DONATE 500MN COVID-19 VACCINE DOSES

  • 11/06/2021

President Joe Biden declared that the US will donate 500 million doses of "no strings attached" vaccines for the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

"And today, we're taking a major step that will supercharge the global fight against this pandemic. At my direction, the United States will purchase an additional half-billion doses from Pfizer -- the Pfizer vaccine -- that we'll donate to nearly 100 low- and lower-middle-income countries," said Biden.

"Just as with the 80 million doses we previously announced, the United States is providing these half-billion doses with no strings attached," Biden said. "Let me say it again: with no strings attached."

The White House announced that this is the largest-ever purchase and donation of vaccines by a single country to help protect people around the world from COVID-19.
The vaccines to low-income countries will start shipping in August. As many as 200 million doses will be delivered by the end of this year and the remaining 300 million will be delivered in the first half of 2022.
The US will allocate these doses to low and lower-middle-income nations around the world, working through COVAX to deliver them.

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