The White House says it's running out of money to cover COVID tests and vaccines. | via NPR
People 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 COVID tests for people who don't have insurance.Next week, the White House says it will start to wind down a COVID-19 program that pays to test, treat and vaccinate people who don't have health insurance.broad government spending bill
has been spent so far and what funding remains. Republicans in particular have been unwilling to agree to new spending.that the country risks being"blindsided" by future coronavirus variants. Republican leaders agreed to support the emergency spending because Democrats chose to cover some of the cost by reallocating money Congress had already approved but has not yet been spent.
The Biden administration is canceling plans to buy more of the treatment next week because of the lack of funding. The government also cannot buy more oral antiviral treatments like Paxlovid beyond the 20 million treatments already secured, and needs to scale back planned purchases of preventive treatments for immunocompromised people, the White House said.
So far, Romney and at least half a dozen other top Senate Republicans said they have not received full responses to their questions.
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