CDC Will No Longer Supply Free COVID-19 Vaccines for Uninsured Adults
Source: Daily Beast
Published May 16, 2024 3:04PM EDT
The Biden Administration will end a program which provides free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured adults.
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the CDCs Bridge Access Program for COVID-19 Vaccines will end in August of 2024. The program has provided over 1.4 million free COVID-19 vaccines since September 2023.
After August, there may be a small amount of free vaccine available through health department immunization programs, but supply would be very limited, said CDC spokesperson David Daigle We dont yet know if the manufacturers will have patient assistance programs.
In the programs place, Daigle only offered the promise of the CDCs Vaccines for Adults proposal, which would provide non-influenza vaccines to 24 million uninsured adults. The public health proposal is currently part of President Joe Bidens 2025 budget, he said. If enacted by Congress, this program would reduce disparities, protect communities from vaccine-preventable diseases, and enhance and maintain the infrastructure needed for responding to future pandemics, he said.
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CDC Bridge Access Program UPDATE page - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html
hlthe2b
(102,979 posts)So, I see this dismantling of the program as rather short-sided.
area51
(11,976 posts)AllyCat
(16,367 posts)IronLionZion
(45,884 posts)or sign up for Obamacare or see if they can qualify for Medicaid. Uninsured people tend to be in red states with low COVID vaccination rates. So that can compound the problem of seasonal infection surges in those states.
LPBBEAR
(304 posts)has been making some pretty boneheaded decisions about Covid.
This is another one.
BumRushDaShow
(131,746 posts)and Congress refuses to re-up funding for most of the COVID programs.