On June 24th, a bipartisan pair of Senators, Chris Murphy & Jerry Moran, joined together in asking Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to work with the Department of Defense to donate surplus COVID vaccines to US Consulates to administer to US citizens.
While the consulates are historically not equipped to provide medical services to citizens, these are unprecedented times and it has been done in the past during other epidemics, either directly, with the support of the Department of Defense, or by contracting with local healthcare providers.
Millions of Americans live in countries where vaccine availability is severely limited and vaccination is considered a responsibility of your country of citizenship, rather than residence.
Other countries are beginning to offer vaccines to their overseas citizens, namely France and China--often as part of a "one for our citizens, one for yours" package that avoids creating an improper appearance of inequality.
Notably, the United States has asserted that it is incapable of doing what France & China can do, despite having the most powerful military in the world and despite overseas citizens paying taxes for services that they are categorically denied access to.
This seems to be a limit of willpower, not capability, and your support can help change that.
I kindly request you to join Senator Murphy and Senator Moran in urging the State Department to support overseas Americans, and to forward my message of thanks and support to their offices.
