Covid-19 roundup: Congress agrees to $10B spending bill; New preprint shows Gilead's Veklury is ineffective
After much haggling and concerns over whether federal funding for vaccines and testing would run out, Congress agreed to a new Covid-19 spending bill Monday.
The deal calls for $10 billion in repurposed Covid funds that hadn’t been spent, Reuters was among those to report. Legislators had said they were close to an agreement late last week after Republicans and Democrats agreed to remove a provision that would have provided $5 billion in aid to foreign countries.
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