Fearing supply shortages, EU wants to purchase more COVID vaccines

Fearing supply shortages, EU wants to purchase more COVID vaccines

The European Union wants to raise more money to shore up its supplies of potential COVID-19 vaccines after estimating that the number of shots available next year around the world might fall short of demand, two EU sources said. The possible move by the wealthy EU could weaken a global procurement effort co-led by the World Health Organization and further limit the vaccines available to poorer countries, even though the bloc has publicly championed the sharing of COVID-19 vaccines among the entire global population. The EU executive, the European Commission,…

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