The Biden administration has been criticized for failing to fulfill its mandate.

President Biden, who pledged to fight the coronavirus pandemic by making the USA a “vaccine arsenal” for the world, It is increasingly criticized by public health experts, global health advocates, and even Democrats in Congress. those who say they can’t keep their word.

Mr Biden has donated or pledged nearly 600 million doses of vaccines to other countries – a small fraction of the 11 billion that experts say are needed to slow the virus’s worldwide spread. His administration has also taken steps to expand Covid-19 vaccine production in the United States and India, and is supporting production in South Africa and Senegal to expand access to locally produced vaccines in Africa.

But now with management recommend booster doses for vaccinated Americans Starting next month, outraged public health experts and many Democrats on Capitol Hill are urging the president to act more aggressively to scale up global production. Inside An analysis published ThursdayAIDS advocacy group PrEP4All found that the administration is spending less than 1 percent of the money that Congress has earmarked to increase its Covid-19 countermeasures to expand vaccine production.

Congress this year put a total of $16.05 billion in the American Recovery Plan in two separate tranches that could be used to procure and manufacture treatments, vaccines and tools to end the pandemic. But PrEP4All saw the administration spend $145 million—just $12 million from the American Recovery Plan—to expand vaccine production.

The United States donated 115 million excess doses and purchased 500 million doses from Pfizer and BioNTech, more than any other country, for distribution through Covax. But that’s still a small fraction of the 12 billion doses that Duke University’s Center for Global Health Innovation has predicted the world’s needs by the end of 2021.

James Krellenstein, founder of PrEP4All and author of the report, said, “If they don’t change course very soon, the Biden administration will be remembered as the Reagan administration was remembered today for not dealing with the AIDS crisis. ”