President Joe Biden of the United States has offered a distribution of 500 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the world’s poorest countries, with “no strings attached,” to help expedite the end of the pandemic. “These half-billion dosages are being provided by the United States with no strings attached.
“There are no strings attached,” Biden stated before a G7 conference in Carbis Bay, England, beside Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla. Biden had been under increasing pressure to define his global vaccine sharing proposal, especially as supply disparities have grown more severe around the world and demand for vaccines in the United States has decreased significantly in recent weeks. According to The New York Times, the US will pay “not-for-profit” pricing to Pfizer and BioNTech for vaccine supplies, with 200 million doses to be issued this year and 300 million more by the middle of next year.
Even though huge numbers of people in the United States and the United Kingdom have gotten vaccines and COVID-19 instances have decreased, the pandemic continues to rage overseas, with enormous numbers of people dying in Brazil and India.
In many places of the world, where mass immunization programs have yet to take off due to supply constraints, coronavirus outbreaks are resurfacing.
Experts believe that as the sickness spreads, the virus will change, increasing the possibility of more easily transmissible and fatal varieties arising.
Only 81 million doses of COVAX have been distributed so far, and certain nations, particularly in Africa, have yet to receive any supplies.
According to CDC data, 140 million people in the United States are completely immunized with two doses, accounting for 42 percent of the population.
The Pan American Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 outbreak in Latin America in 2021 could be worse than it was in 2020.
Virus cases are on the rise in South and Central America.
The G7 conference, which opens on Friday, will focus on global vaccine distribution, with discussions already starting on a $50 billion vaccine distribution plan for poorer countries.
“It’s time for a change, not charity”.
“G7 governments must urgently work with other governments to use all policy options available to facilitate and mandate transparent, unconditional, enforceable and full transfer of technologies of COVID-19 medical tools, particularly vaccines, by companies they host to manufacturers in all regions, and especially in low- and middle-income countries, to ensure access for everyone, everywhere,” Dr.Christos Christou, the international president of Medicins Sans Frontieres said in a statement.
