Biden administration to ask Congress for more COVID funding - WaPo
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The Biden administration is getting ready to ask Congress for additional funding for vaccine distribution, COVID-19 medications, and other related funding as the country deals with the Omicron surge, The Washington Post reports.
However, a formal request is not imminent.

Still, the White House Office of Management and Budget and HHS is said to be putting together a funding request in the tens of billions of dollars, according to the newspaper. The ask is also likely to include funding for global vaccination efforts.
Earlier this week, the federal government said it had reached an agreement with Pfizer to provide a total of 20M doses of its COVID antiviral treatment Paxlovid.
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