U.S. to donate millions more Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to poorer nations

 The article focuses on how approximately 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be donated to primarily lower-income countries by the U.S. government. The article states how this represents an expansion of the companies' agreement with the government to provide these doses of vaccine for the price for a not-for-profit. This donation will bring the total number of doses to be supplied to these countries to 1 billion. In the agreement it says that 92 low and lower-middle-income countries and 55 member states of the African Union. They expect that the 1 billion doses will be distributed by the end of September as the process did begin in the beginning of August. The article further discusses vaccination rates within the U.S. and U.K. and EU compared to the rest of the world. These donations are the first steps to aiding the rest of the world to get vaccinated so we can get past this pandemic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/22/us-to-donate-millions-more-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-doses-to-poorer-nations.html