after surplus doses and international pressure to help countries still struggling with outbreaks of covid-19. the first wave of 29 million doses will be sent out over the coming weeks. let s bring in dr. michael osterholm. he s the director of infectious reserve policy. thank you for being with us. thank you. what will this do to the vaccine fight, do you think? don t forget there are 16 billion people on the face of the earth who are in low to middle-income countries and only 1.5% have had access to the vaccine. this is very good news today. i commend the administration for its efforts, but as a world, we ever a lot more work to do to bring this pandemic under control for most of the low and middle-income countries, as well as stop the variant development