On Wednesday, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. joined with prominent Indian leaders, who came to Washington, DC, to call upon President Biden to give the stored 60 million AstraZeneca doses to India and to do so now. The crisis is urgent, and continued delays are deadly. Biden has sat on the stockpile of 60 million doses for at least 10 weeks now, and his promise of exporting them was made more than a month ago. Biden stipulated that he wouldn’t export any doses until the FDA approves doing so — even though India both has approved and been a producer of the vaccine for other countries. Biden’s announcement a few days ago, bragging about sending vaccines sometime in the next six weeks, has the appearance of holding a glass of water before a man dying of dehydration.
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