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In this March 2021 photo, a staff member of Ochsner Health carries a tray filled with syringes containing the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as people come into the Castine Center in Pelican Park to be vaccinated in Mandeville, La./Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP
U.S. to share up to 60 million vaccine doses amid pressure to aid desperate countries Tyler Pager, Annie Linskey, Emily Rauhala
The United States will share up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine with other countries, the White House said Monday, as the Biden administration faces growing pressure to help vaccinate the global population and cases spike around the world.
The move comes as India in particular faces an increasingly dire situation, with its health system showing signs of collapse adding to the sense of urgent global need. The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is not authorized for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, will be shipped out once it clears federal safety reviews, officials said.
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. WASHINGTON Joe Biden offered voters a promise when he campaigned for the White House: He would do a better job on the coronavirus pandemic than President Donald Trump. Accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in August, he pledged that the first step I will take will be to get control of the virus that s ruined so many lives. Declaring victory three months later, he said, I will spare no effort or commitment to turn this pandemic around. Now, 100 days into his presidency, Biden can point to a host of figures showing that he has kept his promise, from plunging death rates to soaring vaccination numbers. But the hard part may be just beginning as the mission switches from churning out vaccines to getting people to actually get them especially the reluctant, the remote and the disadvantaged.