If you live in a Southern state or a Midwestern state that is less wealthy, then it’s going to be a real problem for those people,” Plescia said. If Congress doesn’t approve funding for COVID-19 services and a state doesn’t purchase supplies, county governments in those 26 states would be required to find the money. COVID-19 stalemateThe Biden administration asked Congress for $22.5 billion for COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines in early March. “I am very confident that whatever happens this summer, we will have enough tools, tests, treatments, vaccines to get us through,” Jha said during a briefing in early June. “Without federal funding, the purchase and distribution of therapeutics in Pennsylvania would be left to the private healthcare and insurance sectors.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2022 15:54 UTC