US finalizes order for 200m additional Covid-19 vaccine doses, Biden says

The US has finalized an order for 200m more vaccine doses – 100m doses each from Pfizer and Moderna – to be delivered by the end of July, Joe Biden confirmed on Monday.

Speaking at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, the president touted his team’s early efforts to expand access to coronavirus vaccines, and criticized Donald Trump’s strategy for distributing vaccines, saying the last administration did not order enough doses or mobilize enough people to administer shots.

“My predecessor, to be very blunt about it, did not do his job,” Biden said.

Biden also celebrated that the US is on track to exceed his goal of 100m vaccine doses distributed over his first 100 days in office, but he emphasized Americans still had to take precautions to limit the spread of the virus.

“Mask up, America. Mask up,” Biden said.

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