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Biden Says Deals Clinched for 200 Million More Vaccine Doses
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February 11, 2021
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1:41Now PlayingPresident Joe Biden announced that the U.S. has finished deals for 100 million additional vaccine doses each from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., and that the companies would deliver new and existing orders quicker than projected.
While the orders had been previously announced, the delivery dates for the additional vaccine doses were moved up to the end of July, Biden said in remarks Thursday at the National Institutes of Health. Delivery of a previously ordered batch was also sped up, to the end of May from the end of June.
“We’ve now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans,” Biden said in a speech in which he offered harsh criticism of former President Donald Trump’s handling of the vaccine program.
“My predecessor, to be very blunt about it, did not do his job,” he said, accusing Trump of not purchasing enough doses of vaccine, mobilizing enough health care workers to inject it or establishing enough sites around the country to provide inoculations.
The White House said on Jan. 26 that it planned to order 200 million more doses of the vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer Inc. The new orders bring the government’s total to 600 million doses. Both vaccines require a two-dose regimen, making that enough for 300 million people.
The Biden administration has been touting the order since its initial announcement, saying it would give the U.S. enough vaccine by the end of summer to inoculate every adult.
Those numbers don’t include any other possible vaccines. Johnson & Johnson is seeking an emergency clearance for its one-shot vaccine, and the Food and Drug Administration could grant it as soon as this month. Biden has said he would rather end up with surplus vaccine than not enough.
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