President Joe Biden announced Wednesday the U.S. government is increasing its investment in combating the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 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 the United States already committed to purchasing. The doses will be bought at a not-for-profit price, according to a senior administration official, and shipped through the global COVID-19 platform known as COVAX. So far, the United States has shipped out about 160 million doses globally of the total 1.1 billion it has now pledged to ship by this time next year free of charge, with no strings attached, Biden said. “We’re not going to solve this crisis with …
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