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U.S. to Buy 500 Million Pfizer Shots for Low-Income Nations
- President to announce global vaccine strategy on Thursday
- G-7 leaders working on plan to end Covid-19 pandemic by 2022
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President Joe Biden’s administration intends to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer Inc.’s coronavirus vaccine to share internationally, as the U.S. turns its attention to combating the pandemic globally, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The government will buy about 200 million doses this year to distribute through Covax, the World Health Organization-backed initiative aimed at securing an equitable global distribution of the vaccine, and about 300 million doses in the first half of next year, the person said.