The White House is canceling plans to buy monoclonal antibody treatments, to bolster production of home COVID tests, and more after a request for COVID funds was left out of a spending bill passed last week.
Tamara Keith, NPR NewsPeople pass a COVID-19 testing site on a Manhattan street on Jan. 21. The White House says it is running out of money to pay for coronavirus tests for people who don’t have insurance.
has been spent so far and what funding remains. Republicans in particular have been unwilling to agree to new spending.in a letter on Tuesday“With cases rising abroad, scientific and medical experts have been clear that in the next couple of months we could see rising cases of COVID-19 here in the United States as well.
The Biden administration is canceling plans to buy more of the treatment next week because of the lack of funding, the official told reporters. And while officials say they do have enough vaccine doses available for immunocompromised people to get a fourth dose, if the rest of the population ends up needing an additional dose, they may not have the funds needed to meet the nation’s needs. The gap in funding would be particularly severe if a vaccine-evading variant comes along and a new formulation is needed.
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