{"id":802109,"date":"2021-09-22T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802109"},"modified":"2021-09-22T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:14:14","slug":"u-s-to-donate-up-to-1-billion-covid-19-vaccines-to-global-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-donate-up-to-1-billion-covid-19-vaccines-to-global-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. To Donate Up To 1 Billion COVID-19 Vaccines To Global Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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\" 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buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/248FC9D3-ED8D-4198-91E3-380BE99BC308_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pfizer and BioNTech are planning to give another 500 million doses of the groups\u2019 COVID-19 vaccine to the United States, which then plan to donate the shots to other countries with fewer resources.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/22\/us-to-donate-millions-more-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-doses-to-poorer-nations.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by CNBC, the effort was announced on Wednesday and is \u201can expansion of the companies\u2019 agreement with the U.S. government to provide extra doses at a not-for-profit price for less-advantaged nations,\u201d bringing the complete amount of doses to be given to the countries up to 1 billion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The outlet added:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13.431980906921\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>In line with the&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.pfizer.com\/news\/press-release\/press-release-detail\/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-500-million-doses-covid-19__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!-rhI8I0bcG2uSvW2HmSsEHIN1dj7IK_eX0eKYTCkLhig56l1Y-e7WBkQH3JXXOnU$\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>initial agreement<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, the U.S. government will allocate doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine to 92 low- and lower-middle-income countries and the 55 member states of the African Union, Pfizer said Wednesday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Deliveries of the initial 500 million doses began in August, and the 1 billion total under the expanded agreement are expected to be delivered by the end of next September, the company added.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Biden administration was dealt a blow to its booster shot effort last week, precipitating this announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The administration was pushing the idea of booster shots, but an advisory panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chose not to recommend widespread booster shots for people who previously got a COVID-19 vaccine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe vote \u2014 the first on boosters in the United States \u2014 was a blow to the Biden administration\u2019s strategy to make extra shots available to most fully vaccinated adults in the United States eight months after they received a second dose,\u201d The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/17\/us\/fda-pfizer-booster-covid.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>. \u201cThe broader rollout was to start next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fda-panel-overwhelmingly-rejects-biden-plan-to-give-booster-shots-to-most-who-got-pfizer-vaccine\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe committee of experts voted 16-2 against giving Pfizer booster shots to people 16 and older, and only endorsed giving the booster shots to \u2018people who are 65 or older or at high risk of severe Covid-19, and received their second dose at least six months ago,\u2019 the report added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s likely beneficial, in my opinion, for the elderly, and may eventually be indicated for the general population,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/17\/fda-panel-begins-voting-on-pfizers-covid-booster-doses-rejecting-shots-for-general-public.html\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Dr. Ofer Levy, a vaccine and infectious disease specialist at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cI just don\u2019t think we\u2019re there yet in terms of the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levy added, \u201cWe all agree that if we really want to impact this pandemic, we need to vaccinate the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The World Health Organization (WHO) previously pushed back against the idea of booster shots, citing the need for other countries to be prioritized to get the shots before citizens of wealthier countries were given additional doses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earlier this month, the WHO extended its request for a moratorium on COVID-19 booster shots until the end of this year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/who-extends-call-for-booster-moratorium\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, the group asked for countries to not roll out additional doses until the end of September so that other countries can get the shots that have not had as much access to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere has been little change in the global situation since then, so today I am calling for an extension of the moratorium until at least the end of the year to enable every country to vaccinate at least 40% of its population,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing earlier this month, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/08\/who-extends-call-for-a-moratorium-on-covid-booster-doses-until-the-end-of-the-year.html\"><span class=\"s1\">CNBC<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world\u2019s poor should be satisfied with leftovers,\u201d Tedros said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and 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Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer and BioNTech are planning to give another 500 million doses of the groups\u2019 COVID-19 vaccine to the United States, which then plan to donate the shots to other countries &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802109","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\/802109","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802109\/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=802109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}