Earlier, at the G7 Leaders' Network Summit in February, Biden announced that the United States would donate $4 billion to the WHO-led "vaccine fair distribution plan" in batches in the next two years. Last week, under the pressure of public opinion, the White House promised to ship 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine overseas. On May 4th, the White House supported the plan to send at least 10% Pfizer vaccine produced in the United States overseas before July 4th.
COVID-19 infection rate has soared in dozens of low-and middle-income countries.
When the Biden administration announced new measures, the infection rate and death toll of COVID-19 in dozens of low-and middle-income countries soared, and the vaccine supply was far from meeting the demand. Among them, India is the current global epidemic center. In the past week, about 380,000 new cases were diagnosed in COVID-19 every day, and the death toll in a single day exceeded 3,500. Despite this, experts still believe that the actual number of infected people and deaths may be higher.
For several months, infectious disease experts have been warning that allowing the virus to spread and mutate without restriction in any country will pose a threat to the whole world, because the emerging mutation may produce resistance to existing vaccines. This threat, coupled with the fundamental concern for human life, has prompted more and more people to support giving up the intellectual property protection of vaccines and treatments in COVID-19.
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