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Biden Says Donated Pfizer Shots to Ship Globally in August
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President Joe Biden announced the U.S. would begin shipping a half-billion donated doses of Pfizer Inc. coronavirus vaccines to countries in “dire need” in August, making good on a promise to lead the global campaign against the pandemic.
Biden said Thursday the U.S. purchase and donation of Pfizer’s shots would be the largest of any single country so far, and that the vaccines would come “with no strings attached” -- a veiled criticism of Russia and China, which he’s accused of using vaccines as leverage in their foreign policy.