White House announces 20M COVID vaccine doses are being sent abroad

The Biden administration on Monday announced plans to send 20 million US-approved COVID-19 vaccine doses to other countries by the end of June as the US population moves closer to herd immunity.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said those doses will be in addition to 60 million AstraZeneca doses that aren’t approved for use in the US and which are under review for possible contamination before they are shipped abroad. Psaki did not say which countries would receive the doses, but she said the US would be leading the world in gifting vaccines if the AstraZeneca doses are deemed usable.