The US has agreed on Thursday to "loan" doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada and Mexico, to the tune of 1.5 million and 2.5 million doses, respectively.
This comes under international pressure for the US to to start to export the vaccines it is producing.
Ironically, however, the AstraZeneca vaccine hasn't been approved for use in the US yet, and it has come under fire for having problems with severe side effects, and has been banned in more than one area.
According to Axios, these doses will also come as a "loan" from the US, which expects to be paid in kind at a later date, possibly with vaccines from another provider.
Canada and Mexico are both way behind schedule in rolling out the vaccine to their respective populations, partly due to the fact that they have no domestic production of them.
There has also been lots of criticism levelled at the Trudeau government for alleged grave mistakes in the vaccine's rollout, which is said to have cost the nation precious time and resources.
This is the first time the Biden administration has entered into any sort of an agreement to share doses with another country, and the only agreement active to date.
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