The United States will begin to share its reserve of vaccines against the coronavirus of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca with other countries once their use is approved by federal authorities, as confirmed this Monday by the Government chaired by Joe Biden to the news agency The Associated Press .
Up to 60 million doses would thus be ready to be exported in the coming months
, after Biden has already shared about four million with Mexico and Canada.
The vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is approved for use in many other countries, including the European Union, but is still pending review in the United States.
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The Biden administration is under increasing international pressure to share its vaccine stock with other countries, especially after ensuring that its entire population can be immunized with vaccines that are already approved (those from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson). , which would make AstraZeneca redundant;
and given the worsening of the pandemic in countries like India in recent weeks.
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"We will not need to use the AstraZeneca vaccine here for the next few months,"
said the White House coordinator for the coronavirus response.
Jeff Zients, "so we are looking at options to share doses with other countries when they become available."
The United States has already vaccinated more than 53% of its adult population with at least one dose of the three vaccines already licensed, and hopes to have enough doses for all citizens who want them by early summer.
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It also has about 10 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine already available, although they have not yet passed the control of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English), which could happen in the coming weeks;
There are also another 50 million doses in production that could be ready in May or June to be shipped to other countries if so decided.
These doses would be donated by the US Government, which has agreed to purchase 300 million from AstraZeneca.
