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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. The European Union announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a further 300 million doses of Moderna's vaccine against COVID-19 and was injecting almost a quarter of a billion euros into efforts to counter the threat of coronavirus variants that are spreading on the continent. (Aris Oikonomou, Pool via AP)