Health officials expect a COVID-19 surge in the fall, but with fewer deaths than beyond coronavirus spikes. The news: A variant-specific withdrawal has just become legal to deal with the expected backlog of cases.
Health officials expect a COVID-19 surge in the fall, but with fewer deaths than beyond coronavirus spikes. The news: A variant-specific withdrawal has just become legal to deal with the expected backlog of cases.
The bad news: there probably wouldn’t be enough for everyone.
This is not surprising, as the shortage of monkeypox vaccines has found that fitness staff are stretching doses amid the public fitness emergency.
White House officials point the finger at Congress, which will have to shell out the money needed to keep vaccines available as needed.
As The Hill reported, a senior White House official said last week that management would seek another $22. 4 billion to fund the COVID-19 response, such as $4 billion to respond to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
“We will not have evidence in our national strategic inventory if we attend an omicron-type event,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a briefing. “We promised the other Americans that we would make sure we didn’t get into this. “, however, we needed Congress to intervene. Congress has not intensified.
He said the option of going the fall and winter without vaccines for Americans is “unacceptable. “
How, in 2022, is COVID-19 investment staggered?
After all, Congress spent the summer fighting for the Inflation Reduction Act, more than $700 billion in legislation that aims to increase blank jobs and reduce carbon emissions. fight against COVID-19 and monkeypox.
But COVID-19 is news, and Congress is about adopting the progressive timeline its members campaigned by and beating it for midterm victory.
Recent elements of precedence come with outrage over the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade. Congress passed abortion spending in July: President Joe Biden is even willing to replace Senate obstruction regulations to pass legislation.
Then, of course, came the Inflation Reduction Act crises, in which Senator Joe Manchin, D-W. Va, angered his colleagues for opposing parts of the bill. He arrived here, but the uproar absorbed all the oxygen from the Capitol. for weeks.
Planning ahead for a covid-19 surge in bloodless weather?Who has time for that?
Congress has taken the time.
“While we would possibly have the vaccines for other people for this fall vaccination effort, we don’t know what’s next,” Becerra said. “We don’t know what the next generation of vaccines will look like if we don’t have the resources to continue this research. “
This is the challenge with COVID-19: it mutates and bureaucratizes new variants. If we don’t follow it, we lose the game.
COVID-19 reaction coordinator Ashish Jha noted that it is “always more expensive” to respond to a new progression like the wave of omicron last winter than to prepare in advance. He predicted that if a new wave of coronavirus cases were to occur, Congress would be more likely to pass funding circular.
“It will charge the American taxpayer twice as much and will be less efficient. One of the reasons to be prepared and at the forefront.