The US has acquired an additional 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, President Biden
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In the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Biden said the purchases would increase supply by 50 percent to 600 million doses.
Biden, who did not remove his mask to speak, said the companies are tightening delivery deadlines, and 100 million doses promised by the end of June will now be delivered by the end of May.
He said the government had secured enough doses of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to vaccinate every American by the end of July.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the US paid about $ 2 billion to Pfizer for the additional doses, and $ 1.65 billion to Moderna.
The US has now bought enough vaccine doses to vaccinate the population twice.
However, the extra doses will not be available immediately, which means that the existing shortages of stock are likely to continue, at least in the short term.
Instead, the extra 200 million doses will be a turning point for when the initial stock is depleted.
In his remarks Thursday, Biden found the former guilty President Trump
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“My predecessor – to be very blunt about it – did not do his job to prepare for the great challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans,” Biden said.
The Trump administration under Operation Warp Speed has combined 400 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna, but has been criticized for failing to help states with the ‘last mile’ of proliferation, including firing weapons, which are delegated to the states. is.
The rate of vaccination began at a slower pace than former Trump officials promised last fall, while states and federal officials argued over who bears the blame.
But despite the complaints, states averaged nearly 900,000 vaccinations a day when Biden took office, and they are now on the verge of nearly 1.5 million a day.
Additional vaccine supplies are also expected to come from Johnson & Johnson. The Food and Drug Administration will review the single-shot coronavirus vaccine later this month.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine requires only one dose, unlike the two-dose vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which means it can be distributed more easily.
It is also much easier to store; the shot is estimated to remain stable for two years at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit, and it will remain stable in most standard refrigerators for temperatures of 36 to 46 degrees for at least three months.
It is expected that the initial offer will be limited. The company said it “expects the product to be available immediately after authorization,” but did not specify how much.
The company still expects to deliver 100 million doses by the middle of the year.