'What's ending here is political commitment and funding, not cases or deaths,' said NJKenworthy.
Coronavirus mortality in the U.S. has decreased substantially since early in Biden's term when more than 3,000 people were dying every day. That decline is inseparable from the increased availability of vaccines, tests, and treatments made possible by robust government funding.
But roughly 400 people around the country continue to die from Covid-19 each day, tens of thousands are hospitalized, transmissionhigh, and the White House is bracing for a potential surge in infections this fall—as money to address the ongoing crisis is drying up with no replenishments in sight. "What's ending here," tweeted University of Washington medical anthropologist Nora Kenworthy,"is political commitment and funding, not cases or deaths."
Biden has asked federal lawmakers to appropriate $22.4 billion to support the fight against Covid-19.
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