BRIEFING ROOM
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`Fact Sheet: President Biden Announces New Steps to
`Boost Vaccine Supply and Increase Transparency for
`States, Tribes, and Territories
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`JANUARY 26, 2021 -
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`STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
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`Administration to Purchase Additional 200 Million Doses to Be Delivered This Summer
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`Just over a year since the first COVID -19 case was confirmed in the United States, the nation
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`has hit another grim milestone in the pandemic, reaching 25 million infections and counting.
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`The pace in which this virus has spread throughout the US. is staggering and with new
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`variants emerging, the spread is not slowing any time soon. That’s why it is critical that we
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`vaccinate as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
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`President Biden has a comprehensive National Action Strategy to put the pandemic behind us
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`and he and the COVID-19 response team are aggressively implementing it. Today, the
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`President is announcing bold steps that will help meet the goal of administering 100 million
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`shots in 100 days and ramp up vaccine supply as fast as possible. As a result of these actions,
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`the federal government will have enough vaccine supply for the entire US. population by the
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`end of the summer.
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`The President is taking the following actions today:
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`An Increase in Weekly Vaccine Supply to States, Tribes and Territories: The Biden-Harris
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`Administration will increase overall, weekly vaccine supply to states, Tribes and territories
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`from 8.6 million doses to a minimum of 10 million doses. This increase of 1.4 million doses per
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`week will allow millions more Americans to get vaccinated sooner than previously anticipated.
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`The Administration is committing to maintaining this as the minimum supply level for the next
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`three weeks.
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`Increased transparency for States, Tribes, and Territories to Help Their Vaccination
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`Efi'orts: The Biden-Harris Administration is taking action to provide states, Tribes and
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`territories with a reliable three-week supply look-ahead. The Department of Health and
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`Human Services will provide allocation estimates for the upcoming three weeks as opposed to
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`the one week look-ahead that they previously received. This increased transparency will give
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`state and local leaders greater certainty around supply so that they can plan their vaccination
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`efforts and administer vaccines effectively and efficiently.
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`Purchase 200 Million Additional Doses to Be Delivered This Summer, Double the Nation’s
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`Vaccine Supply: President Biden directed his COVID-19 Response Coordinator to work with
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`HHS to increase our total vaccine supply for the American people. The Biden-Harris
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`Administration is working to purchase an additional 100 million doses of each of the two Food
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`and Drug Administration-authorized vaccines — Pfizer and Moderna. This increases the total
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`vaccine order for the US. by 50%, from 400 million to 600 million with these additional doses
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`expected to deliver this summer. With these additional doses, the US. will have enough
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`vaccine to fully vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of this summer.
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