President Joe Biden announced on Sept. 22 that the U.S. government is increasing its investment in combating the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus globally by doubling the number of COVID-19 vaccines it plans to purchase and ship around the world.
U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill for another 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to ship to 100 countries—92 low- and lower-middle-income countries and the 55 member states of the African Union. That’s on top of the 500 million vaccines the United States has already committed to purchasing. The doses will be purchased at a not-for-profit price and shipped through the global COVID-19 platform known as COVAX, according to a senior Biden administration official.
