Pfizer begins to export US-made COVID shots: Report

First doses of Pfizer’s US-made COVID-19 shots sent to Mexico as pressure grows on US to help other countries.

Pfizer Inc’s shipment of its COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico this week includes doses made in its United States plant, the first of what are expected to be ongoing exports of its shots from the US, a source familiar with the matter has told the Reuters news agency. The vaccine shipment, produced at Pfizer’s Kalamazoo plant in the state of Michigan, marks the first time the drugmaker has delivered abroad from US facilities after a Trump-era restriction on dose exports expired at the end of March, the source said on Thursday. The US government has been under mounting pressure in recent weeks to provide surplus vaccines to other nations desperately in need as it makes swift progress vaccinating its own residents. Many countries where the virus is still rampant are struggling to acquire vaccine supplies to help tame the pandemic.