NEW: Biden admin. officials say the US will soon run out of funding for future Covid booster shots, new treatments and testing efforts if the spending legislation remains stuck in Congress.
The federal government will be canceling plans to purchase additional monoclonal antibody treatments that it had expected to order as soon as next week after Congress failed to provide an additional $22.5 billion in Covid funding that the White House had requested, said a senior administration official.
“We want to be clear, waiting to provide funding until we’re in a worse spot with the virus will be too late,” the official said. “Importantly, when you consider the cost of all these investments compared to the cost of what we will prevent in terms of hospitalizations, death, and damage to our health care system and our economy, it is not a close call.”
The White House had initially asked for $22.5 billion in additional Covid funding to continue to support a range of programs from testing to sending vaccines overseas as part of a wider spending bill. But following opposition from Republicans and Democrats, the House stripped the Covid funding.
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