US to release 20 million vaccines

With vaccination far advanced in its territory, Biden has faced strong pressure to drop some of the vaccines the United States has collected and is not using, as the vaccination campaign in that country advances at an accelerated pace. and nearly 40% of the population received both doses.

During the first week of May, the United States showed its support for the temporary release of vaccine patents. The initiative which was presented by India and South Africa in October of last year, promoted by more than 100 countries, including Argentina, and rejected mainly by the United Kingdom, the European Union (EU) and Switzerland, headquarters of large pharmaceutical companies.

“It is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic require extraordinary measures,” said US trade representative Katherine Tai, in the text which formalized a change in position that the sectors most progressives had demanded within the Democratic Party.