Senate Agreed to $10 Billion COVID Package, With No Money for Global Response

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Senate Agreed to $10 Billion COVID Package, With No Money for Global Response
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The final COVID package that was passed by the Senate made available far less than half the amount Biden requested and contained exactly zero dollars for international COVID responses.

, in Uganda, only 1 in 1,000 individuals have received boosters. Only 3 percent of Pakistanis have received their boosters. Only 2.2 percent of Georgians have been boosted. And the list goes on.

Wealthy countries, which invested huge sums in mRNA vaccines, have managed to largely kick-start their economies again, and return life to relative normalcy for residents after months of lockdowns, and keep their health systems afloat even during recent surges. However, poorer countries risk ongoing health system inundation with each new surge. The U.S., U.K.

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