President Joe Biden.Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPresidentJoe Bidenreceived his second COVID-19 booster shot on Wednesday,a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the additional dosefor Americans aged 50 and older.Before Biden got the shot in front of reporters at the White House, he urged Congress to pass additional funding for his administration’s COVID-19 response program, which supplies free vaccines, tests and treatments for Americans andhas run out of money after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement.“This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine,” Biden said. “Americans are back to living their lives again; we can’t surrender that now. Congress, please act. You have to act immediately.“Funding for the program was originally part of a larger government spending bill that Biden signed into law earlier in the month, but Democrats and Republicans were divided over the proposed $15 billion that would go towards things like booster shots, new vaccines and antiviral pills. Republicans objected, asking to first get details on how the previous funding was used, which health officials criticized, saying that they’ve sent that information already.President Joe Biden.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe money was stripped from the billand Democrats said that they will instead work to pass a standalone bill for COVID-19 funding, but that has yet to happen, and as of last weekuninsured Americans are no longer able to get reimbursed for testing and treatments.Without the money, Biden added, the U.S. could be unprepared for any new COVID-19 variants.“Even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, we’re not going to have enough money to purchase it. We cannot allow that to happen,” he said.Biden, who got a second booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, also promoted the White House’s new website,covid.gov, which now has information on where Americans can go for testing, treatments, vaccines and masks in one spot.RELATED VIDEO: Here are Some Myth-Busting Facts About COVID-19 VaccinesAmericans over 50 like Biden, along with those 18 and older who are immunocompromised, are eligible to get a second booster dose if it has been at least four months since their last one. The Biden administration had urged the FDA to make this recommendation with research showing that the vaccine’s protection against infection starts to wane after three months, and as the omicron subvariant BA.2 spreads in the U.S.As information about thecoronavirus pandemicrapidly changes, PEOPLE is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from theCDC,WHOandlocal public health departments.PEOPLE has partnered with GoFundMeto raise money for the COVID-19 Relief Fund, a GoFundMe.org fundraiser to support everything from frontline responders to families in need, as well as organizations helping communities. For more information or to donate, clickhere.
President Joe Biden.Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
PresidentJoe Bidenreceived his second COVID-19 booster shot on Wednesday,a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the additional dosefor Americans aged 50 and older.Before Biden got the shot in front of reporters at the White House, he urged Congress to pass additional funding for his administration’s COVID-19 response program, which supplies free vaccines, tests and treatments for Americans andhas run out of money after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement.“This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine,” Biden said. “Americans are back to living their lives again; we can’t surrender that now. Congress, please act. You have to act immediately.“Funding for the program was originally part of a larger government spending bill that Biden signed into law earlier in the month, but Democrats and Republicans were divided over the proposed $15 billion that would go towards things like booster shots, new vaccines and antiviral pills. Republicans objected, asking to first get details on how the previous funding was used, which health officials criticized, saying that they’ve sent that information already.President Joe Biden.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe money was stripped from the billand Democrats said that they will instead work to pass a standalone bill for COVID-19 funding, but that has yet to happen, and as of last weekuninsured Americans are no longer able to get reimbursed for testing and treatments.Without the money, Biden added, the U.S. could be unprepared for any new COVID-19 variants.“Even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, we’re not going to have enough money to purchase it. We cannot allow that to happen,” he said.Biden, who got a second booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, also promoted the White House’s new website,covid.gov, which now has information on where Americans can go for testing, treatments, vaccines and masks in one spot.RELATED VIDEO: Here are Some Myth-Busting Facts About COVID-19 VaccinesAmericans over 50 like Biden, along with those 18 and older who are immunocompromised, are eligible to get a second booster dose if it has been at least four months since their last one. The Biden administration had urged the FDA to make this recommendation with research showing that the vaccine’s protection against infection starts to wane after three months, and as the omicron subvariant BA.2 spreads in the U.S.As information about thecoronavirus pandemicrapidly changes, PEOPLE is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from theCDC,WHOandlocal public health departments.PEOPLE has partnered with GoFundMeto raise money for the COVID-19 Relief Fund, a GoFundMe.org fundraiser to support everything from frontline responders to families in need, as well as organizations helping communities. For more information or to donate, clickhere.
PresidentJoe Bidenreceived his second COVID-19 booster shot on Wednesday,a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the additional dosefor Americans aged 50 and older.
Before Biden got the shot in front of reporters at the White House, he urged Congress to pass additional funding for his administration’s COVID-19 response program, which supplies free vaccines, tests and treatments for Americans andhas run out of money after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement.
“This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine,” Biden said. “Americans are back to living their lives again; we can’t surrender that now. Congress, please act. You have to act immediately.”
Funding for the program was originally part of a larger government spending bill that Biden signed into law earlier in the month, but Democrats and Republicans were divided over the proposed $15 billion that would go towards things like booster shots, new vaccines and antiviral pills. Republicans objected, asking to first get details on how the previous funding was used, which health officials criticized, saying that they’ve sent that information already.
President Joe Biden.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
The money was stripped from the billand Democrats said that they will instead work to pass a standalone bill for COVID-19 funding, but that has yet to happen, and as of last weekuninsured Americans are no longer able to get reimbursed for testing and treatments.
Without the money, Biden added, the U.S. could be unprepared for any new COVID-19 variants.
“Even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, we’re not going to have enough money to purchase it. We cannot allow that to happen,” he said.
Biden, who got a second booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, also promoted the White House’s new website,covid.gov, which now has information on where Americans can go for testing, treatments, vaccines and masks in one spot.
RELATED VIDEO: Here are Some Myth-Busting Facts About COVID-19 Vaccines
Americans over 50 like Biden, along with those 18 and older who are immunocompromised, are eligible to get a second booster dose if it has been at least four months since their last one. The Biden administration had urged the FDA to make this recommendation with research showing that the vaccine’s protection against infection starts to wane after three months, and as the omicron subvariant BA.2 spreads in the U.S.
As information about thecoronavirus pandemicrapidly changes, PEOPLE is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from theCDC,WHOandlocal public health departments.PEOPLE has partnered with GoFundMeto raise money for the COVID-19 Relief Fund, a GoFundMe.org fundraiser to support everything from frontline responders to families in need, as well as organizations helping communities. For more information or to donate, clickhere.
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