Biden signs deal for 200 million more doses, hopes most vaccinated by July
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(Worthy News) – US President Joe Biden said Thursday the US had signed deals to acquire 200 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses as officials look to immunize the vast majority of the population by July.
The deals with Pfizer and Moderna, which the administration had announced it was seeking last month, increase the country’s total vaccine supply by fifty percent, to 600 million doses.
“Just this afternoon, we signed … final contracts for 100 million more Moderna and 100 million more Pfizer vaccines,” Biden said after touring the National Institutes of Health near Washington. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]
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