President Biden says US to buy and donate half-billion doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine: ‘We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery’

“America knows first-hand the tragedy of this pandemic. We’ve had more people die in the United States than anywhere in the world, nearly 600,000 of our fellow Americans,” Biden said in remarks after meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

He added, “We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery.”

The move will also serve to counter efforts by Russia and China to use their own state-funded vaccines to expand their global influence.

“American workers will now produce vaccines that save lives of people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean — people they will…