THE ISSUE: Amid a spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths in India, President Joe Biden spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and said the United States will provide âoxygen-related supplies, vaccine materials and therapeutics,â according to a readout from the White House on the phone call. âIndia is grappling with overcrowded hospitals, low oxygen supplies and inundated crematoriums,â The Washington Post reported. Additionally, âthe U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming months,â The Associated Press reported.
U.S. faces calls to share vaccines
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Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated.
But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. And increasingly, he is wondering why the U.S. is not doing more to help, particularly as the American vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses that have been approved for use elsewhere in the world, but not in the U.S., sit idle. We live in a state of defenselessness on every level, Guevara said of the situation in his Central American homeland.
Now Turning Down Excess Doses, U.S. Faces Calls To Share Vaccines
Honduras has obtained a paltry 59,000 vaccine doses for its 10 million people, while in the United States, nearly 90 million people have been fully vaccinated.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Victor Guevara knows people his age have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in many countries. His own relatives in Houston have been inoculated.
But the 72-year-old Honduran lawyer, like so many others in his country, is still waiting. And increasingly, he is wondering why the United States is not doing more to help, particularly as the American vaccine supply begins to outpace demand and doses that have been approved for use elsewhere in the world, but not in the U.S., sit idle.
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