White House sounds the alarm on Covid-19 vaccine, monoclonal supply shortages
The White House put Congress on notice Tuesday afternoon: If you don’t authorize billions more in funding to battle Covid-19, the US will officially not have enough money for another booster shot, if necessary, or more monoclonal antibodies and antivirals.
The call to break the funding stalemate comes as Congress punted on including about $15 billion — Biden initially wanted almost $23 billion — in pandemic funds in a larger annual spending package last week. That decision was made in part to expedite the larger spending bill, and Ukrainian aid, and as Republicans have sought a better accounting of where the trillions of earlier Covid funds have been spent.
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