Opin­ion: Ado­les­cents can wait. The US needs to start do­nat­ing Covid-19 vac­cines to needy coun­tries now.

Now that the US is swim­ming in Covid-19 vac­cines and the sup­ply has of­fi­cial­ly eclipsed the de­mand, it’s time for Amer­i­ca to lead the world and start ship­ping these ex­cess dos­es to coun­tries that des­per­ate­ly need them.

Un­like the IP waiv­er at the World Trade Or­ga­ni­za­tion, which Biden now sup­ports and will like­ly take years to trans­late in­to ac­tu­al shots in arms, the US could eas­i­ly do­nate just a tiny frac­tion of the more than 60 mil­lion dos­es of Pfiz­er, Mod­er­na and J&J vac­cines sit­ting on Amer­i­can shelves right now.

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