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USA ACQUIRES 200 MILLION NEW DOSES

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The Biden administration will speed up vaccination to stop the spread of the pandemic that has caused more than 400 thousand deaths in the country. The United States has more than 25 million infected, according to the Johns Hopkins University count. That figure is equivalent to 25.2 percent of the world total and 7.62 percent of the 328 million inhabitants of the world’s leading power, which is the country with the highest number of covid-19 cases.

The president himself announced that he will buy an additional 200 million doses of the two vaccines for covid-19 that have received authorization for emergency use in the country, those of the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna. “We believe that we will soon be able to confirm the purchase of 100 million doses of each of the two vaccines that the FDA has authorized,” Biden said in remarks at the White House.

“That is 100 million more doses of Pfizer and another 100 of Moderna,” said the president, “200 million additional doses of those that the federal government had previously guaranteed, not yet in hand, but requested. We hope that you are 200 million of additional doses will be delivered this summer. ” With this purchase, the United States will increase by 50 percent, from 400 million to 600 million, the number of doses of vaccines in its possession.

150 million doses in 100 days

“These are enough vaccines to vaccinate 300 million Americans by late summer, early fall,” Biden said. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses. An estimated 260 million people in the United States are considered “eligible” to receive the vaccine. Pfizer and Moderna began trials in children up to 12 years of age so the number may go up.

Biden set a goal in his first 100 days to have 100 million vaccinations. In his most recent intervention, Biden raised that number to 150 million. “It wasn’t until the last days of the transition that we got some of the cooperation we needed. And once we took office, the vaccine program was in a worse situation than we had anticipated or expected,” he lamented.