It’s hard to argue that the collapse of federal COVID funding will undermine vaccine-uptake and complicate efforts to develop new vaccines. The only question is exactly how much Americans’ stingy approach to public health will hurt them, and everyone else.
at 67 percent “fully” vaccinated, usually with two doses of a messenger-RNA vaccine.
Politics are to blame for the coming cash crunch. “Congress is acting as if the COVID-19 pandemic is over, which is far from true,” Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University global health expert, told The Daily Beast. In early 2021, incoming President Joe Biden and narrow Democratic majorities in the Senate and House used a budgetary gimmick called “reconciliation” to quickly pass into law another $2 trillion in COVID-related spending. But Republican support was waning—and it’s not hard to see why. “Public health” and “vaccine” were becoming dirty words in the conspiratorial, anti-government Republican base.
But the Republicans said no, and the bill died. The Biden administration hasn’t yet tried to revive the funding initiative—and, indeed, seems to have given up on ever doing so.Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID response coordinator, signaled Biden’s surrender on federal COVID funding in an online event sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation on Aug. 16.
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