Biden, Johnson to Rally G-7 for Vaccine Push After U.S. Hoarding
- Europe irked as U.S. only recently began to export vaccines
- G-7, NATO, Putin summits mark president’s first foreign trip
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Joe Biden’s first overseas trip as president will focus on bolstering the availability of Western coronavirus vaccines abroad -- a bid to both counter China and calm tensions with allies who’ve been at odds with the U.S. over its hoarding of shots and intellectual property rights.
Biden departs Wednesday for the Group of Seven summit in the U.K., leaving the U.S., where the pandemic is receding, to discuss how the world’s richest democracies can help the rest of the world snuff out the virus. Both Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson aim to rally the G-7 behind a plan to make more shots available to low-income countries.