Current Events > Under pressure, US donates half billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses to world

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-pledges-new-vaccine-donations-bid-rally-global-pandemic-fight-2021-09-22/

The United States on Wednesday promised to buy 500 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world. President Joe Biden made the announcement during a virtual summit aimed at boosting global vaccination rates against the coronavirus and rallying world leaders to do more. "To beat the pandemic here we need to beat it everywhere," Biden said as he kicked off the summit, which included leaders from Britain, Canada, Indonesia and South Africa as well as World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "This is an all hands on deck crisis," Biden said of the pandemic that has raged since early 2020, killing more than 4,900,000 people. The additional vaccines will bring U.S. donations to more than 1.1 billion doses, far short of the 5 billion to 6 billion doses global health experts say is needed by poorer countries. Delivery of the new tranche will begin in January.

Health experts say rich countries have not done enough and have criticized the United States in particular for planning booster shots for fully vaccinated Americans while much of the world's population still does not have access to vaccines. They say the planned U.S. dose donations are welcome but insufficient and note the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to scale up and to administer in poorer countries, which lack sophisticated infrastructure for storing and shipping shots. We will need 6 to 9 billion doses of vaccines to inoculate the developing world, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National Tropical School of Medicine at Baylor University in Texas. "Donations alone arent enough to end this pandemic. The vast majority of lofty donation pledges havent materialized so far," said Carrie Teicher, director of programs for Doctors Without Borders. Leaders from developing nations have warned that vaccine hoarding by wealthy countries could lead to new coronavirus variants.

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Well, it's not like our dumbfuck populace is gonna use them.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

Well, it's not like our dumbfuck populace is gonna use them.

This use them or lose them

ScazarMeltex posted...

Well, it's not like our dumbfuck populace is gonna use them.

they're the same people that will complain about this

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We should keep donating as much as we can
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thronedfire2 posted...

they're the same people that will complain about this

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CADE FOSTER posted...

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Already heard it. "quit giving other countries money and resources, help us first!"

But they refused to get vaccinated. I guess in their minds, Biden should have given the world the finger and used whatever money it costs to buy the shots on some random bullshit that's unrelated. Dumb fucks

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