"Biden announces first 25 million vaccine doses going to India, others facing 'surges' "

"Biden announces first 25 million vaccine doses going to India, others facing 'surges'
Officials detailed where the first of 80 million promised doses were headed.


President Joe Biden announced on Thursday the first details of the U.S. sending 80 million COVID-19 vaccines overseas with the aim of "ending the pandemic globally."

The Biden administration has been under pressure to provide other hard-hit nations with some of its abundant supply and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said at a White House briefing that some of the initial doses would go to India, Gaza and the West Bank and other nations and areas he said were "facing crises."


White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients said the donations would be "surplus" from the supply the U.S. needs and would include the FDA-approved Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but not the Astra Zeneca vaccine.

"Today, we’re providing more detail on how we will allocate the first 25 million of those vaccines to lay the ground for increased global coverage and to address real and potential surges, high burdens of disease, and the needs of the most vulnerable countries," Biden said in a statement.

"At least 75 percent of these doses—nearly 19 million—will be shared through COVAX, including approximately 6 million doses for Latin America and the Caribbean, approximately 7 million for South and Southeast Asia, and approximately 5 million for Africa, working in coordination with the African Union and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The remaining doses, just over 6 million, will be shared directly with countries experiencing surges, those in crisis, and other partners and neighbors, including Canada, Mexico, India, and the Republic of Korea," he said.




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President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks on COVID-19 response and vacci...Read More
"We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions. We are sharing these vaccines to save lives and to lead the world in bringing an end to the pandemic, with the power of our example and with our values," Biden said.

At Thursday's COVID-19 briefing following the announcement, Zients said, "As the days get brighter and brighter at home, we’re focused on driving progress to help the pandemic -- help end the pandemic around the globe. It's both the right thing to do and an important step in protecting Americans by helping to stamp out the virus. The president has committed that the U.S. will be an arsenal for vaccines."


COVAX, or COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, is a World Health Organization-backed global vaccine program helping with the distribution, but Sullivan added at the briefing that the U.S. will have a final say on where the doses go and its effort is focused on countries dealing with "urgent" needs.

"We will retain the say as to where they go," Sullivan said. "Ultimately the United States will have the authority to say the doses are going here as opposed to there."




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He emphasized Biden's point that the U.S. is not "extorting or asking concessions or imposing conditions," and included an apparent slight, "the way other countries who are providing doses are doing."

"We are doing none of those things. These are doses being donated free and clear to these countries for the sole purpose of improving the public health situation," he said.

"We're not asking anything of the people of Gaza and West Bank, but we feel that given what they are dealing with in the situation on the ground there, it is only right and proper and good for the United States to actually allocate some doses to that country," he said.

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Zients highlighted one million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were headed for South Korea in a matter of hours.

"After making a 2,000-mile journey to California, these one million doses are being loaded into a plane that will take off for the Republic of Korea this evening, carrying hope and bringing life-saving protection to the one million South Koreans who have already signed up to get a shot," he said.

MORE: COVID-19 Map: Tracking Cases and Vaccinations in the U.S.
Biden's statement reminded that his administration supports efforts to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines and that the U.S. has already shared more than 4 million doses of vaccine with Canada and Mexico.




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A healthcare worker administers the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Rio de Janeiro, April 28, 2021.
The president spoke on the U.S. vaccination effort Wednesday, calling on Americans to participate in a "month of action" to reach 70% of American adults vaccinated by July Fourth. His statement Thursday on vaccines abroad comes as he celebrates first lady Jill Biden's birthday in Rehoboth Beach without big, public plans on their schedule.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday declined to offer specifics ahead of the president but said their distribution was intended to "focus on equity, the equitable distribution of vaccines."

"We will focus on science," he told reporters on the effort while on a trip to Costa Rica.

The administration plans to send at least 80 million doses overseas by the end of the month.

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MonkeyF0cker

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It's not Biden's money, morons.

It's mine and every other taxpayer's.

When you think it's noble to spend other people's money, you just might be a brokedick.
 

billysink

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A President spending taxpayer money ain't noble. But it's his job.

Giving away taxpayer money to your friends and family is the stuff of royalty though. Not in the job description but everyone knew that.


When it comes to nobility I just go with whatever The Robe says.
 
When you think it's noble to spend other people's money, you just might be a brokedick.

Once you pay your taxes & give what you owe to the government, it's not your money (i.e. "other people's money") any more. It's the government's money.

If the government isn't going to "spend" their money, what do you want them to do with it. Invest it in the stock market? Give it back to you? LOL. That's a pipe dream.
 

MonkeyF0cker

EOG Dedicated
Once you pay your taxes & give what you owe to the government, it's not your money (i.e. "other people's money") any more. It's the government's money.

If the government isn't going to "spend" their money, what do you want them to do with it. Invest it in the stock market? Give it back to you? LOL. That's a pipe dream.

LOL. Directly from the mind of a Marxist.

THE PEOPLE are supposed to run/direct the government. Not the other way around, shithead.
 

MonkeyF0cker

EOG Dedicated
Your argument is rather silly. Enforcing laws that are on the books isn't creating laws and isn't giving away tax dollars.
 

MonkeyF0cker

EOG Dedicated
tell the judge exactly what you think... you will see who is running the country... not the people

Maybe you missed the key phrase "supposed to".

We're turning more and more Marxist every day.

Thanks to the mentality of ignorant shitheads like X-Files.
 

MrTop

EOG Master
Maybe you missed the key phrase "supposed to".

We're turning more and more Marxist every day.

Thanks to the mentality of ignorant shitheads like X-Files.




when the people push back too much they will lose if the govt wants to push back more. They can take the courts away and bring in the military .. it can happen anywhere..
 

MonkeyF0cker

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And those are the ones that will cause the people to push back.

Our military fought in the Middle East for 20 years and couldn't beat a population with less small arms than we have.

And the idea that all ranks of the American military will just follow orders and turn on its own citizens is not realistic in the slightest.
 

MrTop

EOG Master
And those are the ones that will cause the people to push back.

Our military fought in the Middle East for 20 years and couldn't beat a population with less small arms than we have.

And the idea that all ranks of the American military will just follow orders and turn on its own citizens is not realistic in the slightest.



if they wanted to they could of nuked them... but there would look bad on the worlds stage.... i could tell you were not in the military
 

MonkeyF0cker

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if they wanted to they could of nuked them... but there would look bad on the worlds stage.... i could tell you were not in the military

Because it takes someone with military service to claim that the military could have nuked some country.

LOL.

Brilliant shit.
 

MrTop

EOG Master
Because it takes someone with military service to claim that the military could have nuked some country.

LOL.

Brilliant shit.



but you did not know it... just like you thought gold was 2000 in 1980....


go to your copy and past mistake on the internet... i will school you the real price... Show all of EOG that you are an idiot....PLEASE
 

MonkeyF0cker

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but you did not know it... just like you thought gold was 2000 in 1980....


go to your copy and past mistake on the internet... i will school you the real price... Show all of EOG that you are an idiot....PLEASE

Oh, totally. Had no idea that the United States could nuke a country. LMAO.

Do you know what inflation is, genius? Obviously not.

Good Lord. This place is teeming with morons.
 

MrTop

EOG Master
Oh, totally. Had no idea that the United States could nuke a country. LMAO.

Do you know what inflation is, genius? Obviously not.

Good Lord. This place is teeming with morons.




you did not know... you thought Gold was about 2000 in 1980.... you are the biggest dope at EOG
 

MonkeyF0cker

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you said gold price not adjusted IDIOT

Go ahead and link it.

Then we can see you telling people to buy gold at higher prices than today and me telling people to buy stocks instead at relative lows.

You lose money. I make it. End of story.

Thanks for playing.
 

MonkeyF0cker

EOG Dedicated
you don't have a job.. and you don't have anything... you are getting helped out by joe

I don't need a job and haven't for almost 20 years.

I retired in my 20's.

Because I'm a lot smarter than you are and could buy and sell you 100x over.
 

MonkeyF0cker

EOG Dedicated
if you made money in the market you would know that gold was never $2000 in 1980

I was a coder on the CBOE writing quant models while you were picking your ass and taking drive thru orders at McDonalds.

I'm sure your finance background is substantial.
 
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