Washington — The US plans to buy 500-million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to share internationally as President Joe Biden prepares to join other Group of Seven (G-7) leaders in a campaign to end the pandemic by distributing shots worldwide.
As Biden and other G-7 leaders gathered for the start of their summit in the UK, their teams were putting together a document that outlines a plan to end the Covid-19 pandemic by December 2022. At the summit in Cornwall, the presidents and prime ministers will pledge to deliver at least 1-billion extra doses of vaccines over the next year to help cover 80% of the world’s adult population, according to a draft communique seen by Bloomberg News...
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