Joe Biden has requested additional funding from the U.S. Congress to develop a new coronavirus vaccine to combat the latest variant, warning that everyone will be ‘tentatively’ encouraged to get another booster shot.
Biden, who has spent weeks on end on vacation, told a reporter amidst a chorus of boos, “I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to the Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that works.”
“Tentatively it is recommended that it will likely be recommended everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not,” he added.
Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax are all in the process of updating vaccines to combat the new strains. All will require approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which only last week admitted that the vaccines do not prevent transmission from one of the latest variants known as BA.2.86 or “Pirola.”
The number of people willing to get boosted has fallen dramatically over the past few months, with only 17 percent of the American public receiving the latest “bivalent Covid booster.”
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