Biden says U.S. has bought enough COVID vaccine for ‘all Americans’ Chris Sommerfeldt
The U.S. government has secured contracts for another 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, meaning there are now enough shots in the pipeline to inoculate “all Americans,” President Biden announced Thursday.
The 200 million doses 100 million from Pfizer and 100 million from Moderna brings the total vaccine supply locked in by the U.S. to 600 million, Biden said at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
“We’ve now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans,” Biden, who was flanked by Dr. Anthony Fauci, said after touring NIH’s Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, where the vaccine now manufactured by Moderna was created.
Biden: US Will Have Enough Vaccine Supply for Every American by End of July
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President Joe Biden said the United States has now purchased enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate 300 million Americans by the end of July.
While at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, Biden announced that the U.S. has secured an additional 200 million vaccine doses from pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer, increasing the supply by 50 percent and raising the total to 600 million.
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