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Federal funds for COVID testing and vaccines are running low

by Samantha Fields

Dec 28, 2022

The White House has been asking Congress to allocate more funds, but that hasn't happened.

With universal coverage for COVID vaccines, treatments and tests ending, "we're going back to how the U.S. health care system generally works," said Jen Kates at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Pediatricians brace for the end of federal COVID-19 vaccine funding

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Nov 29, 2022

Once funding for COVID vaccines run out, doctors will have to pay upfront for the doses — and hope that they make their money back.

Pediatricians will have to pay for COVID vaccines after federal funding runs out — and that has many of them worried.

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