President Biden says the U.S. will work to scale up COVID vaccine production in other countries.

In addition to announcing that the United States is donating another 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to countries in need, Biden said Wednesday that his administration would work to “scale up” vaccine manufacturing in other countries, including in Africa.

“We’re working with partner nations, pharmaceutical companies and other manufacturers to increase their own capacity and capability to produce and manufacture safe and highly effective vaccines in their own countries,” Biden said at Wednesday’s virtual summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. ....