By Brenda Goodman, CNN
Biden’s management has planned how to triumph over the crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and will avoid purchasing vaccines, remedies and tests starting this fall, White House COVID-19 reaction coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said tuesday.
“One of the things we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about over the last few months, and we’re going to continue this work and hear more from management about this, is to get us out of this acute crisis emergency phase where the U. S. government is going to get out of this crisis emergency phase. “The U. S. is buying the vaccines, buying the treatments, buying the diagnostic tests,” Jha said on a occasion sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. USA
“My hope is that in 2023, you will see the commercialization of almost all of those products. Some of that will begin this fall, in the coming days and weeks. You’ll see the commercialization of some of those things,” he said.
The availability of those products would move to the normal fitness system, Jha said, so if you want a vaccine or antiviral treatment, get it from your doctor or a hospital.
In the spring, Biden’s management asked Congress for $10 billion to fund ongoing pandemic reaction efforts, an agreement to approve the investment is stalled.
Jha said stagnant investment has forced officials to reallocate cash from other efforts, such as building materials and protective apparatus for the Strategic National Reserve.
Authorities plan to use the money to buy updated booster shots that protect against the BA. 4 and BA. 5 subvariants of the coronavirus, which Jha says will be available from early to mid-September.
“I would like to get to a point where each and every adult in America who needs a vaccine can get one. I hope we get there. We haven’t arrived yet in terms of the number of vaccine doses we’ve had to buy,” he said.
Jha said the transition to commercialization is complicated. These are regulatory issues, market dynamics issues, and equity issues, but management is working with care and idea to get it right.
“Right now, anyone can get into a CVS and get vaccinated. I need to make sure that when we make this transition, we may not be at a point where no one can get vaccinated because we didn’t make the transition right. “”He said.
Jha said some of the marketing will start in the fall, but the maximum will be visual in 2023.
He said it would be vital for the government to continue to invest in the progression of the next generation of vaccines and pandemic preparedness.
“But this business of controlling the pandemic day by day, that has to make the transition, and we’re working very hard to make sure that the transition is done in a very orderly and transparent way for everyone to see coming,” he said.
Jha suggested all Americans get hold of the new reinforcements once they are available.
He noted that fall and winter can be tricky in the United States if the flu returns, as expected.
“These are really extensive innovations in our vaccines in terms of the ability to avoid infection to prevent transmission,” he said. “These vaccines are coming very, very soon. Therefore, it will be very important for other people this fall and Winter to get the new photo. It is designed for the virus that exists. And again, based on everything we’ve noticed so far, all the knowledge suggests that it will be very effective against the new variants.
The United States has experienced little or no influenza transmission over the past two years, largely due to Covid-19 mitigation measures, such as wearing masks.
“I expect autumn and winter to be much more like the fall and winter of 2019, with much less mitigation,” Jha said.
“In general times without a pandemic, the flu stretches our health care formula,” he said. “By ruling out Covid in the most sensitive of that, our healthcare formula is going to have serious disruptions unless we’re very proactive in preventing it, if we don’t do anything and just hope for the best. “
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