{"id":767478,"date":"2022-01-27T00:28:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T00:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/u-s-has-shared-more-than-400-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T00:28:17","slug":"u-s-has-shared-more-than-400-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/u-s-has-shared-more-than-400-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. has shared more than 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 26 (UPI) —<\/span> The United States has shared more than 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses around the world, the White House said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Vaccines have been sent to 112 countries for free, Jeff Zients, President Joe Biden’s White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said during a press conference Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n

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“Today, we will hit a major milestone in our global effort,” he said.<\/p>\n

This week, the United States sent about 3.2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Bangladesh and 4.7 million doses to Pakistan — the largest single donation given to one country.<\/p>\n

The vaccines are shared by COVAX, the World Health Organization initiative to bring COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries.<\/p>\n

“COVAX has given the world the best way to ensure the fastest, most equitable rollout of safe and effective vaccines to all at-risk people in every country on the planet,” WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.<\/p>\n

WHO has been asking countries to join while admonishing so-called vaccine nationalism, where wealthy governments rush to inoculate their entire populations ahead of people in poorer nations.<\/p>\n

Zients also announced at the press conference that 70% of seniors and half of eligible adults in the United States have received booster shots. He added that this was “significant progress.”\n<\/p>\n

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“Vaccines remain our single most powerful tool,” Zients concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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