White House summit leads to big promises to fight COVID in needy countries

People line up to get the Sinopharm vaccine in Harare, Zimbabwe. World leaders promised to speed up vaccine distribution to low- and middle-income countries at the White House's second Global COVID-19 Summit on May 12. (Tafadzwa Ufumeli / Getty Images)

We're still in a pandemic — and we can't be distracted by the war in Ukraine and other global crises.

That was the big message at the second Global COVID-19 Summit, a virtual event hosted by the White House along with the governments of Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal on Thursday. It aimed to refocus world leaders' attention on fighting COVID.