President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 and ordered flags lowered to half-staff for the tragic milestone.
summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus as he led the U.S. in marking the "tragic milestone" of 1 million deaths in America. He ordered flags lowered to half-staff and warned against complacency around the globe.
Eight months after he used the first COVID summit to announce an ambitious pledge to donate 1.2 billion vaccine doses to the world, the urgency of the U.S. and other nations to respond has waned. The U.S. has shipped nearly 540 million vaccine doses to more than 110 countries and territories, according to the State Department — far more than any other donor nation.
"We have tens of millions of unclaimed doses because countries lack the resources to build out their cold chains, which basically is the refrigeration systems, to fight disinformation and to hire vaccinators," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said this week. She added that the summit was "going to be an opportunity to elevate the fact that we need additional funding to continue to be a part of this effort around the world.
"To beat the pandemic here, we need to beat it everywhere," Biden said last September during the first global summit.President Joe Biden convened a virtual COVID-19 global summit and announced the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world to 1 billion doses on Sept. 22, 2021.
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