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President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States has obtained other 200 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine and thus fulfills the commitment made last month.
In an intervention from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the president said that purchases will increase the supply by 50% , up to 600 million doses.
Biden also said that companies are stepping up delivery times , so 100 Millions of doses that were promised by the end of June will now be delivered by the end of May.
The Administration has obtained sufficient doses of both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to inoculate all Americans before the end of July , as stated by the president.
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paid approximately $ 2, 000 million dollars to Pfizer for the new doses and $ 1, 650 million dollars to Moderna.
The country has You have already managed to buy enough vaccine in advance to inoculate your population twice . However, the extra doses will not be available immediately and the current lack of supply is likely to continue, at least in the short term.
Those 200 Millions of additional doses will play a critical role when initial supplies run out.
