You can thank Trump for making the vaccine available.
How Much Is the Trump Administration Spending on a Vaccine? - Bloomberg
How many vaccine doses will Pfizer and Moderna deliver to the US? — Quartz (qz.com)
On Dec. 23, the US government placed a
second order for the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, for 100 million doses. That brings total orders for the country to 400 million doses between the two shots authorized by the Food and Drug Administration—enough for 200 million people, since both the
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses per person. The US population is about
329 million.
All 400 million doses are due to be delivered by the end of July 2021, but both companies have committed to delivering doses to hospitals, pharmacies, long-term care facilities, and other vaccination sites on a rolling basis until then, with some intermediate deadlines:
Pre-orders of COVID-19 vaccine top five billion (yahoo.com)
s of millions of dollars have been directed to vaccine developers including nearly $500 million to Johnson & Johnson at the end of March.
The United States has allocated funding to more companies than other nation in the hope that one of them will come up with the vaccine to counter the highly contagious virus.
So far, Washington has handed out at a total of least 9.4 billion dollars to seven vaccine developers and signed manufacturing contracts with five of them to provide 700 million doses.
The companies involved are: Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Oxford/AztraZeneca, Novavax, Pfizer/BioNTech, Sanofi/GSK, Merck Sharp and Dohme.