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Rodriguez issued the appeal on Thursday, April 22, amid the country’s dwindling vaccine supply and following reports that the US has an adequate supply of coronavirus shots for its people.
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci was quoted as telling BBC Radio that America might no longer need the millions of doses it has agreed to buy from British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca.
“The US can donate those doses to us, including its excess from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson,” Rodriguez said in a statement, noting that the US has already administered over 200 million doses to its estimated 330-million population.