Negotiators agree additional funding to address U.S. needs but drop international aid from package.
A health care administer gives the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccine to a person at the L.A. Care Health Plan free testing and vaccination site at the First African Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 29, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File PhotoWASHINGTON, April 4 - Negotiators in Congress have agreed to an additional $10 billion in COVID-19 funding to address U.S.
U.S. regulators last week approved a second booster shot for older and immunocompromised Americans, but administration officials have said without more funding from Congress money will run out for the free shots."The consequences of inaction are severe," Biden warned lawmakers at a White House event last week.
Members of Congress negotiating the package, however, could not agree on how to pay for the global response.
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