Americans will soon no longer have free access to government-funded COVID tests, treatments and vaccines. Those tools will move to the private sector — and likely be subject to some of the same issues found in the rest of the health care system.
Sometime in the next few months, Americans will no longer have free access to government-funded COVID tests, treatments and vaccines. Those tools will move to the private sector — and likely be subject to some of the same access and affordability issues found in the rest of the health care system.After two-plus years of being the exception to the rule, COVID will start being handled like any other disease.
"Our goal is to transition procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics from a federally managed system to the commercial marketplace in a thoughtful, well-coordinated manner that leaves no one behind," HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response Dawn O'ConnellThe federal government anticipates running out of money to purchase and distribute vaccines as early as January, O'Connell wrote, and expects the federal supply of various therapeutics to...
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