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As more than 72% of U.S. adults have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, the U.S. has begun shipping doses to poorer countries, where current lack of vaccine access and poor healthcare could potentially result in new Covid strains and prolong the global pandemic.
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, pictured on December 15, 2020. (Photo by ARIANA DREHSLER / AFP) (Photo by … [+]
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White House Assistant Press Secretary Kevin Munoz tweeted on Tuesday that the US would ship 488,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Rwanda.
That number includes the first 100,000 doses of the 500 million President Biden pledged to share with other countries at a G7 meeting earlier this summer, with the remainder of the doses coming from surplus U.S. government supplies, Bloomberg reported.
The Pfizer doses will be shipped through COVAX, the World Health Organization’s…