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Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated. But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. And increasingly, he is wondering why the United States is not doing more to help, particularly as the American vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses that have been approved for use elsewhere in the world, but not in the U.S., sit idle. “We live in a state of defenselessness on every level,” Gueva...

Now Turning Down Excess Doses, U.S. Faces Calls To Share Vaccines Honduras has obtained a paltry 59,000 vaccine doses for its 10 million people, while in the United States, nearly 90 million people have been fully vaccinated. Marlon González and Zeke Miller TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated. But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. And increasingly, he is wondering why the United States is not doing more ...

Last Updated: US Urged To Share Vaccines With Central America As its COVID-19 vaccine supply begins to outpace demand, the United States is being urged to avoid "vaccine nationalism" and share its surplus of shots with struggling countries in Central America. As its COVID-19 vaccine supply begins to outpace demand, the United States is being urged to avoid "vaccine nationalism" and share its surplus of shots with struggling countries in Central America. More than one-fourth of the population of the U.S. — nearly 90 million people — has been fully vaccinated and supplies are so robust...

From scarcity to abundance: US faces calls to share vaccines MARLON GONZÁLEZ and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 21 1of21FILE - In this March 10, 2021, file 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. The stark vaccine access gap is prompting increased calls across the world for the U.S. to start shipping vaccine supplies to poorer countries. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune...

Honduras has obtained a paltry 59,000 vaccine doses for its 10 million people. Similar gaps in vaccine access are found across Africa, where just 36 million doses have been acquired for the continent’s 1.3 billion people, as well as in parts of Asia. In the United States, more than one-fourth of the population - nearly 90 million people - has been fully vaccinated and supplies are so robust that some states are turning down planned shipments from the federal government. This stark access gap is prompting increased calls across the world for the U.S. to start shipping vaccine supplies to poo...