US’ Anthony Fauci: We may donate booster shots to poor nations

US‘ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director and US President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has said that the US may donate booster shots along with doses of vaccines that America is already donating to poor countries.

Dr. Fauci was speaking with CNBC‘s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday.

The CNBC show’s co-anchor, Rebecca Quick, had asked the NIAID director whether Americans would look greedy if only they get booster shots.

“You know, I think you can do both in the sense of consider the possibility and maybe even implement boosters at the same time that you make sure we do everything we can to get doses to people in parts of the world that don’t have ready access to that and if you look at what the United States is doing, we’re doing a lot I mean, we now have pledged 500 million doses in addition to the 80 million doses that we said we would be distributing,” responded President Biden’s chief medical advisor, according to the interview’s unofficial transcript that US and Global News received from CNBC owner NBCUniversal.

Mentioning what the US is doing to supply vaccines to nations that don’t have ready access to them, Dr. Fauci stressed that the US and global economies need to do more.

“We’re already distributing a considerable amount of that,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci. “We have $4 billion that we put into the COVAX, the WHO and other organizations that are going to be putting the resources into getting vaccines so we are doing both.”

He added, “We clearly are making an effort, we all need to do more. The entire world, that at least the developed world that the world that has the resources, needs to do more to make sure that vaccines get distributed equitably throughout the world…”