There is some money going forward, but it's incredibly fragile. The ability to send monoclonal anna bodies to immunal compromise patients and protect them is threatened by may. And i haven't even spoken about building a new surveillance system or long coved research that needs to happen globally. It's also a big threat. If we don't get more money, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives at stake.
The coronavirus pandemic isn’t over, but certain corners of Congress don’t want to spend a penny more on it. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argues for $100 billion in new spending to fight Covid-19.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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