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What Is This COVAX Program That The U.S. Is Pouring Millions Of Vaccines Into?

President Biden said the U.S. is distributing them not to curry favor with allies, but to end the pandemic everywhere. And he's doing it through COVAX.
A patient rests at the COVID ward of the regional hospital in Leova, Moldova, on March 23. Moldova remains one of the poorest countries in Europe and has relied on vaccine donations from Romania and COVAX, a program that aims to distribute the world's vaccines more equitably.

This week, President Biden announced that the U.S. will be sending millions of doses of COVID vaccines abroad by the beginning of July. But significantly, he said the U.S. would not be doling out these life-saving vaccines simply to curry favor with allies ravaged by the pandemic.

"We'll share these vaccines in the service of ending the pandemic everywhere, and we will not use our vaccines to secure favors from other countries," Biden said. And significantly, he said the U.S. will work with "to ensure that the vaccines are delivered in a

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