The US is hoarding Astra Zeneca despite not using it and not letting a single vaccine dose leave the country despite the global crisis. It is shameful.
Biden is implementing an America first ideology in a direct continuation of Trumps policies. For all the talk of global leadership the US is only caring for its own citizens, leaving the EU, China and Russia to take care of the rest of the world and even the United States' direct neighbors.
The US is quick to meddle in the world's affairs and flex their military muscle to further their own interests. The current crisis and the failure of the US to assume any kind of leadership role cements the fact that they can't be relied upon and the EU needs to step up in the coming decades to prevent Russian and Chinese influence.
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Biden is implementing an America first ideology in a direct continuation of Trumps policies. For all the talk of global leadership the US is only caring for its own citizens, leaving the EU, China and Russia to take care of the rest of the world and even the United States' direct neighbors.
The US is quick to meddle in the world's affairs and flex their military muscle to further their own interests. The current crisis and the failure of the US to assume any kind of leadership role cements the fact that they can't be relied upon and the EU needs to step up in the coming decades to prevent Russian and Chinese influence.
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The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs (Published 2021)
Those tens of millions of doses from AstraZeneca are waiting for trial results, while countries that authorized the vaccine beg to have them.
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The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world. Six weeks into the existence of this mechanism, 249 export requests to 31 different countries* have been granted for a total of 34,090,267 doses, as they did not threaten the contractual engagements between the EU and the vaccine producers. Only one export request was not granted. The main export destinations include the United Kingdom (with approximately 9.1 million doses), Canada (3.9 million), Mexico (3.1 million), Japan (2.7 million), Saudi Arabia (1.4 million), Hong Kong (1.3 million), Singapore (1 million), United States (1 million), Chile (0.9 million) and Malaysia (0.8 million).