//Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough

Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough

Workers offload part of a consignment of 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China off an Air Zimbabwe airplane on February 15, 2021, at the Robert Mugabe International Airport, Harare, Zimbabwe. | Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images

Global Covid-19 vaccination efforts need more than just money.

The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, including to lower-income countries.

The administration will commit $4 billion to Covax, releasing the first $2 billion immediately to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which is one of the partners in this effort along with the World Health Organization and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Another $2 billion will follow over the next two years, an effort to spur other countries to contribute more money.

The announcement came during President Joe Biden’s