discussion The Biden government will stop buying COVID vaccines and tests as early as this fall

[Communion]

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Earlier this week, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, Dr Ashish Jha, made a stunning announcement: the administration is planning to stop buying coronavirus vaccines, treatments, and tests by the end of this year. If carried out, it’ll be the latest and arguably most dramatic step by US officials to turn the US pandemic response wholly into a matter of individual responsibility, all while giving private insurers and Big Pharma a massive windfall. Jha made the announcement, fittingly, at an event sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

 

“One of the things we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about in the last many months . . . is getting us out of that acute emergency phase where the US government is buying the vaccines, buying the treatments, buying the diagnostic tests,” Jha told the attendees. “My hope is that, in 2023, you’re going to see the commercialization of almost all of these products. Some of that is actually going to begin this fall, in the days and weeks ahead.”

 

This move would effectively mark the total privatization of the US pandemic response. Publicly funded vaccines, treatments, and tests — and, really, personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks — are the bare minimum of what a government should be providing amid a pandemic that’s killed more than 6 million people around the world. Yet these are exactly what the White House is now planning to gut, and just as we’re entering a fall and winter that Jha himself warned just three months ago could “see a pretty sizable wave of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths.”

 

 

Edited August 23, 2022 by Communion

[OreGuy]

they won't supply but will make it available to drugstores? i mean, werk.

 

the girlies had a good amount of time to get their shot, if they didn't, we'll, it's a you problem now at this point

[Аshanti]

17 minutes ago, OreGuy said:

they won't supply but will make it available to drugstores? i mean, werk.

 

the girlies had a good amount of time to get their shot, if they didn't, we'll, it's a you problem now at this point

True but what about the tests though?

[Communion]

23 minutes ago, OreGuy said:

they won't supply but will make it available to drugstores? i mean, werk.

Most people are already getting their vaccines via places like CVS. The most likely thing to take effect is that they will no longer be free due to no longer being subsidized and supplied by the government, just as it occurred for PCR tests when the HRSA fund expired in April 2022. 

[Into The Void]

I mean people should have got the vaccine by now 

[Archetype]

They should ideally keep vaccines and boosters free for people under a certain income level, same with testing.

[rihannabiggestfan]

Literally the Blue Trump

 

 

 

[JustHoran]

I am already vaccinated, but I think I can possibly get another booster because I have asthma? I gotta look into it. So basically our insurance will just pay for it now instead of it being free? 

[Darius]

I've had 4x (last was in June), should I get another before this happens?

[GhostBox]

14 hours ago, OreGuy said:

they won't supply but will make it available to drugstores? i mean, werk.

 

the girlies had a good amount of time to get their shot, if they didn't, we'll, it's a you problem now at this point

Yup ????

[ClashAndBurn]

15 hours ago, OreGuy said:

they won't supply but will make it available to drugstores? i mean, werk.

 

the girlies had a good amount of time to get their shot, if they didn't, we'll, it's a you problem now at this point

Except people in our age cohort won't be able to get booster #2, due to not being eligible, and thus will be at risk due to waning vaccine efficacy and seasonal COVID resurgence. And that shot won't be cheap, so poor people won't be able to afford it. Nor will they be able to afford the hospital bills from their loved ones getting hooked up to ventilators and drowning in their own lungs.

 

Biden is literally condemning people to die.

[Communion]

12 hours ago, JustHoran said:

I am already vaccinated, but I think I can possibly get another booster because I have asthma? I gotta look into it. So basically our insurance will just pay for it now instead of it being free? 

If your insurance decides to pay for it. The government will also likely no longer be putting pressure on insurance companies to ensure no cost sharing. 

[Ewan Chaos]

Do people not think they should be getting any more COVID vaccines after their first one? I agree that most people should have at least gotten their first one by now but people are going to and should continue to get booster shots in a frequency that makes sense with their needs.

 

Not surprised at this decision. I'm assuming a lot of people who have insurance will be covered or at least have decent coverage but this just decentivizes people without insurance to do things like get vaccinated or test, which sucks. Getting a taste of public healthcare in free vaccines and (some) free tests was nice, but inevitable that it was going away because it's America

[GhostBox]

19 minutes ago, Ewan Chaos said:

Do people not think they should be getting any more COVID vaccines after their first one? I agree that most people should have at least gotten their first one by now but people are going to and should continue to get booster shots in a frequency that makes sense with their needs.

 

Not surprised at this decision. I'm assuming a lot of people who have insurance will be covered or at least have decent coverage but this just decentivizes people without insurance to do things like get vaccinated or test, which sucks. Getting a taste of public healthcare in free vaccines and (some) free tests was nice, but inevitable that it was going away because it's America

We also have millions and millions of shots going to waste  and tests. 

[Horizon Flame]

Socialists think money just grows on trees. 

[Communion]

3 hours ago, Horizon Flame said:

Socialists think money just grows on trees. 

Moderna's COVID vaccines is de-facto owned by the government, are you dense? 

[rihannabiggestfan]

9 hours ago, Horizon Flame said:

Socialists think money just grows on trees. 

Funny how you don't say that for police budget, military budget, and war/Ukraine budget lol