Negotiators have a COVID-19 funding deal the White House says is urgently needed. But it leaves out funding for global vaccination efforts.
, but critics say its lack of global funding reneges on U.S. commitments and clears the way for new variants of the unchecked virus.
Of the $10 billion, half will be used to develop, produce and administer treatments, according to Romney. Another $750 million will be used for research and clinical trials for emerging coronavirus variants, while supporting vaccine manufacturing capacity. Romney said in a press statement that the package meets a key Republican demand that any new COVID-19 funding requested by President
be paid for by repurposing unspent pandemic relief funds. He added that it"will not cost the American people a single additional dollar."A health care worker applies a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a patient on March 22, 2022, in San Salvador, El Salvador. The amount of people that remain unvaccinated worldwide is nearly 2.8 billion, which is comparatively the size of Facebook's international userbase as of 2021.
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