Biden should send COVID vaccine to Africa, counter China's influence

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Opinion | Biden has an opportunity to help vaccinate Africa and reassert the US' international influence

with other countries until all Americans are vaccinated. Given how the initial vaccine distribution is extremely skewed towards wealthy countries, that leaves low and middle income countries at the end of a long line.

As of the first week of February, the Congo was testing fewer than 10 people per million every day, and Uganda, Madagascar, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, among other countries, are alsoAfter a slow start, the US now has access to enough testing, and the Biden administration has also discussed utilizing the Defense Production Act to increase production of tests. Some of those should be exported to address international needs.

This variant has also spread to a number of South Africa's neighboring countries, including Mozambique, where at least 41 cases have been counted. since January has been over 20%, indicating the need for more tests to catch undetected community spread.

 

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No he shouldn’t

China’s going to do that, since they own most of Africa now.

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