Washington: As American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, over 175 American public health experts, scientists and activists have urged US President Joe Biden to take urgent steps to confront the global spread of Covid-19, including immediate export of vaccine doses the country has stockpiled.
The emergence of the Delta variant is resulting in a surge in increasing infection rates in Africa, Latin America and Asia, where vaccines are least available. IN this connection, "We urge you to act now," public health experts wrote in a joint letter sent to senior White House officials on Tuesday, the full text of which was made public on Wednesday in a report by The Washington Post.
According to reports, "The United States currently has over 55 million doses of mRNA vaccines in storage, while only vaccinating approximately 900,000 people per day. At this rate, it would take over two months to administer just the vaccine doses currently stored. "Despite this, mRNA vaccine manufacturers are delivering over 17 million new doses each week to jurisdictions across the US," they added. While ensuring that the country's own vaccine dose stockpile remains in size, the US administration should "begin immediate export of vaccine doses to COVAX or through other international distribution mechanisms - of at least 10 million doses per week", they wrote.
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