U.S. Will Send Vaccines to Canada and Mexico

“The pandemic knows no borders, and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step, is mission critical to ending the pandemic. Many countries, as you know, have already requested, have requested the have already approved AstraZeneca and also have requested our doses from the United States. That includes Canada and Mexico, but is certainly not limited to Canada and Mexico.” “Were there expectations set with the Mexicans that they help deal with the situation on the border?” “There have, there have been expectations set outside of — unrelated to any vaccine doses or request for them that they would be partners in dealing with the crisis on the border. And there have been requests unrelated that — four doses of these vaccines, every relationship has multiple layers of conversations that are happening at the same time.” “You didn’t rule out or the United States isn’t ruling out using our vaccine stockpile.” “I’m actually, I’m actually trying to convey that with every country, there’s rarely just one issue you’re discussing with any country at one time. Right? Certainly that’s not the case with Mexico. It’s not the case with any country around the world. And so, I wouldn’t read into it more than our ability to provide, to lend vaccine doses of a vaccine that we have some available supply on to a neighboring country where there is a lot of traffic that goes back and forth between the countries.”