Joe Biden’s administration plans to buy and donate 500 million Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer nations. The country wants to be the key player in getting other countries vaccinated.
President Joe Biden plans to announce this move at the upcoming G7 summit in Cornwall, England. White House plans to donate 200 million doses by the end of the year, and the USA will deliver the remaining 300 doses of Pfizer vaccines next year. White house key administer Jeff Zients said the country is making every effort to have all the doses as soon as possible.
The delivery of Pfizer vaccines will be through COVAX, an international vaccine initiative by United Nations Health Organizations. Does will be delivered to the lower-income countries and in addition to the African Union.
Pfizer vaccine doses will be given to the United States as “free of profit” pricing. According to the authorities are yet to share all the details. The decision will likely be announced during a Group of Seven meetings in Britain by President Joe Biden, who will collaborate with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
The decision came after growing calls for vaccinations amidst the grave consequences of the pandemic. President wants to encourage other countries and set the USA as an example towards a Covid free world. He also shared his views that the government will dig deeper into its national treasury to help others in need.
“It’s an extraordinary development,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Adding that, the announcement “sends a profound signal in terms of U.S. commitment to global health security and willingness to help end this pandemic for the world and the United States.”
USA president will be starting his eight-day trip to Europe to assert USA relations with the world. He also wants to restore all the bonds and agreements that former president Joe Biden has destroyed earlier.
