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United States donates 29,250 Pfizer vaccines to Grenada 

This story was posted 9 months ago
19 August 2021
in Community, Health, Politics
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(L-R): Minister for Social Development, Housing, and Community Development Delma Thomas, Minister of Health Nickolas Steele, and US Embassy Grenada Principal Officer Karl Duckworth receiving vaccines from the US Government.
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The US Embassy in St George’s is pleased to announce the delivery of 29,250 Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses to Grenada this week.

These vaccines are donated to Grenada by the US Government as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s global vaccine sharing framework.

This donation is in addition to the more than 45,000 vaccines provided to Grenada through the COVAX Facility, which the United States supports with US$4 billion in financial commitments. Since April, COVAX has provided tens of thousands of residents in Grenada and the Eastern Caribbean access to Covid-19 vaccines.

The delivery of the Pfizer vaccine doses from the US Government began last week with the delivery of vaccines to St Kitts and Nevis (11,700); Antigua and Barbuda (17,550); St Vincent and the Grenadines (35,100), and Barbados (70,200). Saint Lucia received 52,650 doses on 17 August.

“We are proud to donate these vaccines to our friends in Grenada,” said US Embassy Principal Officer Karl Duckworth. “The United States supported Grenada and our neighbours in the Eastern Caribbean first with PPE and testing kits, then through the COVAX Facility, and now through this bilateral donation of vaccine doses. We are committed to returning to health and prosperity together.”

On 3 August, the Biden-Harris Administration announced it had donated and delivered more than 110 million doses to over 60 countries, exceeding its original framework for sharing 80 million doses and delivering on its promise of serving as an arsenal of vaccines for the world.

This pandemic knows no borders and helping our neighbors to contain the virus is critical to protecting the health and economic security of our shared community and stopping the spread of Covid-19 around the globe. All of the vaccines that the United States Government donates are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. These are the same vaccines that all Americans can receive and are the same doses the United States is sharing globally. Scientific teams and legal and regulatory authorities from the United States and the region have worked together to ensure the delivery of safe and effective vaccines.

As President Biden said, “From the beginning of my presidency, we have been clear-eyed that we need to attack this virus globally as well. This is about our responsibility — our humanitarian obligation to save as many lives as we can — and our responsibility to our values. We’re going to help lead the world out of this pandemic, working alongside our global partners.”

US Embassy, Bridgetown

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  1. Bob says:
    9 months ago

    Somebody needs to go back to school for a math refresher:
    15,000 already fully vaxed
    29,250 Pfizer vax’s
    Divide by 2 (2 vax’s Requires)
    = 14625 & 15000 = 29,625 total fully vax’d
    Population of GRENADA = 110,000
    Therefore 29,625 fully vax’d Grenadians = 26.9 % of population
    fully vax’d
    …..do the math!

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  2. Rivers says:
    9 months ago

    When did the US give Grenada 45,000 vaccines through covax?????
    The AstraZeneca vaccines were from India instead of the US…its not even a US company
    Thanks for sparing some vaccines that you hoarded before and are now of no use to us

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    • Peter Pan says:
      9 months ago

      The U.S. had a few thousands Astra Zeneca shots well but did not use them because of the blood clot issue surrounding them. I believe that is the reason it was not used.

      Nations were appealing to the U.S. to give away these shots if they were not going to use them and I assume they did just that.

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