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‘Where is the plan?’: Biden pressed on global vaccine strategy Dan Diamond, Tyler Pager Since the day he became president, Joe Biden has looked beyond the nation’s shores when discussing his strategy to combat the coronavirus. “History is going to measure whether we’re up to the task. I believe we are,” Biden said on Jan. 21, unveiling a seven-goal, 200-page plan that he vowed would curb the virus here and abroad while preparing for future pandemics. But almost four months later, the last of those seven goals a vow to “restore U.S. leadership globally” detailed in 11 pages of that nascent plan remains the subject of intense debate within the administration and of growing concern overseas, with officials still wrestling over how to fill in the many blanks in Biden’s plan as cities in India run out of space to cremate their dead.
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Global record : “India’s deadly struggle continues unabated, with the country on Friday reporting another record rise in coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours. To date, the country has recorded more than 21.4 million confirmed infections and at least 234,083 deaths,” our Jennifer Hassan reports. “The escalating figures come as nations send emergency aid to India, whose health-care system is struggling to cope. Some officials have expressed concern that the shipments of crucial supplies are being held up at airports and delayed in reaching hospitals that are in desperate need of oxygen equipment, medicines and vaccines.”
U.S. push to waive vaccine patents will NOT increase the supply for poorer countries and could compromise the safety of the shots, Pfizer CEO says
Biden administration Wednesday threw its support behind a World Trade Organization plan to waive patent protections for Covid vaccines
The plan is intended to make it easier for poorer countries to manufacture the shots
Pfizer s CEO has hit out at the plan, calling it so wrong and saying he is not at all in support of patent waivers
The firm made an estimated $900 million in Covid vaccine sales last quarter
Experts say that the waiver is unlikely to help countries in desperate need of vaccine doses get them any time soon