WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, as he received a second booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine a day after federal regulators approved a fourth shot for those aged 50 and older.
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Biden spoke as his administration rolled out COVID.gov, designed to be a one-stop website to help people in the United States access COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments, along with status updates on infection rates where they live. Biden pressed lawmakers to provide additional funding “immediately” to ensure continued supply of the tools that have helped the nation begin to emerge from the pandemic.
“Congress, we need to secure additional supply now,” he said, warning of shortages of vaccines, tests and treatments. “This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine.”
Biden rolls up his sleeve and gets a second booster dose as the 4th Covid shot becomes available to Americans over 50 https://t.co/BUUvBoEX2K pic.twitter.com/Bbu0g3VMdP
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) March 30, 2022
Biden, 79, received the first series of two doses of the coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office and a first booster shot in September. The additional booster dose was administered by a member of the White House Medical Unit.
“It didn’t hurt a bit,” Biden said.
The additional booster is meant to beef up the body’s protection against COVID-19 in populations most vulnerable to the coronavirus, which has killed more than 975,000 people in the U.S.
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cleared the way for another shot for anyone 50 and older, who can get the additional booster at least four months after their last vaccination. Severely immune-compromised patients, such as organ transplant recipients, as young as 12, are also eligible.
“We have enough supply to give booster shots, but if Congress fails to act we won’t have the supplies we need this Fall,” Biden warned, noting the possibility that regulators will approve a fourth shot for all Americans.
A subvariant of the highly transmissible omicron that scientists call BA.2 is now the dominant coronavirus mutant in the United States. It accounted for nearly 55% of new infections across the nation last week and an even greater proportion in the Northeast, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Scientists say one reason BA.2 has gained ground is that it’s about 30% more contagious than the original omicron. In rare cases, research shows it can sicken people even if they’ve already had an omicron infection. But it doesn’t seem to cause more severe disease than the original, and vaccines appear just as effective against it.
The unvaccinated, though, are at a far greater risk.
How much longer do we have to wait for the results of the mRNA vaccines that introduced the foreign genes to our DNA? I’ve been hoping day in and day out for the change in genetic code of my neighbors and acquaintances. When exactly is the depopulation of the earth that was spearheaded by big pharama going to occur? The world cannot go on much longer. Also, what about the luminescent nanocrystals in the vaccines? I have been anxiously awaiting the intrmicroscopic robots to report the biometric data from the people that got vaccinated. Vaccines have been going for over a year how much longer do I have to wait for the earth to depopulate and for this biometric data to be collected and aggregated and disseminated? This is taking way longer than I thought it would.
He needs more than the booster !!!
Vaccines are a very personal choice as per the cdc ads in Dec 2020. The president is defintlry entitled to take it
I hope he doesn’t die, because his replacement would be worse . How is this not propaganda to take a shot in front of all the cameras?