{"id":1421526,"date":"2022-04-06T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421526"},"modified":"2022-04-06T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:00:20","slug":"covid-czar-jeff-zients-its-in-u-s-national-interest-to-vaccinate-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-czar-jeff-zients-its-in-u-s-national-interest-to-vaccinate-world\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Czar Jeff Zients: It&#039;s in U.S. &#039;National Interest&#039; to Vaccinate World"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcovid-czar-jeff-zients-its-in-u-s-national-interest-to-vaccinate-world%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Departing COVID czar Jeff Zients chose a White House press briefing Tuesday to announce\u00a0the U.S. \u201cnational interest\u201d is best served if the entire world is vaccinated against coronavirus to ward against potential new variants.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/04\/05\/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-hhs-public-health-officials-april-5-2022\/\">spoke<\/a> after\u00a0senators ditched global funding plans from a coronavirus spending deal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is a real disappointment that there\u2019s no global funding in this bill. This virus knows no borders, and it\u2019s in our national interest to vaccinate the world and protect against possible new variants,\u201d Zients outlined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout additional funding for a global response, we won\u2019t have resources to help get more shots in arms in countries in need,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8h2HLwYZM0\">https:\/\/t.co\/8h2HLwYZM0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1336512776471277570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3260098-white-house-official-its-in-national-interest-to-vaccinate-world-against-covid-19\/\">reports<\/a>\u00a0just 24 hours earlier senators announced they\u00a0reached a deal\u00a0to allocate $10 billion in funding to combat the virus. The agreement omits money for the full international coronavirus response.<\/p>\n<p>The initial proposal, worth $15.6 billion including $5 billion for global vaccine efforts, was\u00a0struck from the final deal\u00a0because of disagreements over how to pay for it. The White House initially requested $22.5 billion in funding.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has already provided more than 515 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to upward of 110 countries, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/covid-19-recovery\/vaccine-deliveries\/\">State Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20544095\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1313692317-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response as Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients (R) look on at the South Court Auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zients lamented the deficiency in global funding \u201chas real implications on our efforts to vaccinate the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the additional global funding, [the United States Agency for International Development] does not have the resources it needs to help countries get more shots in arms,\u201d Zients said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be forced to scale back the work that we do to provide oxygen and other lifesaving supplies to countries that need them. Our global genomic sequencing capabilities will fall off, and that undermines our ability to detect emerging variants beyond our borders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/17\/white-house-coronavirus-coordinator-jeff-zients-bails-on-joe-biden-as-the-president-warns-of-future-variants\/\">reported<\/a>, Zients will depart his job as\u00a0White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator next month after a year of leading President Joe Biden\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients announced his decision to depart Thursday, after a year of leading Biden\u2019s team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yj58xFg8FK\">https:\/\/t.co\/yj58xFg8FK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1504474182930731013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Under Zients leadership, the Biden administration was caught off guard by the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants of the virus, leaving the country unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>He also oversaw the administration\u2019s response during a testing shortage around the Christmas season, which left Americans frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Zients will be replaced by Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departing COVID czar Jeff Zients chose a White House press briefing Tuesday to announce\u00a0the U.S. \u201cnational interest\u201d is best served if the entire world is vaccinated against coronavirus to ward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}