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The United States will be sending 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada.
Reports indicate it’s part of a plan by the country to send roughly four million doses that it is not using to our country and Mexico in loan deals.
Canada had reached out to the United States earlier in the week for help procuring COVID-19 vaccines.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the request for assistance was under consideration, but nothing had been agreed upon.
Psaki maintained that priority number one for President Joe Biden is to get every American vaccinated first before helping other nations.
Speaking with Acadia Broadcasting, the news is music to the ears of Canada’s Health Minister Patty Hajdu.
“We share the longest un-militarized border in the world, we have an integrated economy and many integrated communities, so the fact that the United States is willing to work with Canada in this regard and many other regards, it’s a really good sign of things to come.”
Hajdu adds the vaccine is safe, pointing her confidence in Health Canada to ensure safety, even though there were problem batches in European countries.
“We get our doses from different locations than the Europeans do, so Health Canada reviews the data not just on the vaccine but on the manufacturing site, the batch number and what batch we receive.”
The Health minister says politicians do not interfere with health regulators.
