<Anchor> With
half of adults in the United States having completed the corona vaccination, the US government is struggling to deal with vaccine stocks as the vaccination rate has stagnated. The White House has posited that the excess vaccine can be exported.
This is Washington Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung
<Reporter> In
Ohio, which announced that it would give out $1 million by lottery if the vaccine was given, the number of vaccinations increased.
Then, the stock price that I offered to give a prize if I got the vaccine increased to six.
[Police/Colorado Governor: This is a check worth 1.1 billion won. It can also be exchanged for cash and can be used right now.] Although
50% of all adults have been vaccinated in the United States, this is an upbringing when the vaccination rate fell below half of the maximum.
In particular, as the right people are all right and the wrong people endure, the US vaccine stocks are getting more and more free.
At the White House briefing, there were questions about what to do with the excess vaccine.
[White House Access Reporter: Since the federal government did not ask for a vaccine, 53 million vaccines could be distributed to the state. Can I send this to other countries?] The
answer was that the vaccine spares could be exported.
[Andy Slavitt/Senior Advisor for Coronavirus at the White House: We track inventory so that we can export vaccine spares as far as we can get.]
In this case, there is a prospect that Korea, where vaccine imports are concentrated in the second half, will be able to obtain vaccines in advance.
Among these, the vaccine company Moderna revealed that the results of clinical trials on adolescents aged 12 to 17 showed 100% of the preventive effect and no serious side effects.
(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, Video editing: Commissioner Yang)