President Biden said Friday he plans to request additional funding from Congress for the development of a new COVID-19 vaccine, adding he may require everyone to take it whether they previously received a vaccine or not.
Biden, who is vacationing in the Lake Tahoe area, was asked by a reporter on Friday if he could say anything about the uptick of COVID cases and a new variant.
“Yes, I can,” the president said. “I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that works.”
He added, “Tentatively it is recommended that it will likely be recommended everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not.”
A $40 million funding request to Congress from the White House on Aug. 11 did not mention coronavirus money, but included money for Ukraine, U.S. federal disaster funds, and funds to bolster the enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border to slow the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.
In 2022, the Biden administration requested $9.25 billion to fight the virus, but congressional lawmakers refused the request.
The Associated Press said officials are expecting an updated COVID-19 vaccine containing one version of the omicron strain called XBB.1.5.
The new vaccine is a change from today’s combination shots, which mix the original coronavirus strain with last year’s most common omicron variants.
As coronavirus continues to mutate, there will always be a need to update vaccines.
Next month, people will begin to receive the annual fall COVID-19 shot, as Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are working on doses of the XBB update.
Still, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will need to sign off on each vaccine, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must issue recommendations for their use.
The new booster program would come nearly a year after Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic “over” in September 2022, though he said, “We’re still doing a lot of work on it.”
Pres. Biden has some pretty wild ideas about how gullible the American people are. He and the liberal left have spent ALL of their credibility on the COVID-19 debacle. I do NOT believe a word of what is being said. I have seen too many pregnant mothers lose their babies prior to birth; and too many people STILL get the virus and die from it. I will not buy into the hype and the lies again!!!
I will not comply to lies , take them poisoned jabs and flush them
Listen up congress specifically McCarthy if you go along with this commie traitor biden you’ll be a dead man walking we the people will not tolerate you funding this fking moron on a new even less effective vaccine than the first go round with his fking lockdown and forced masking mandates these pharmacistical companys should have been working on this vaccine from the beginning we the people are NOT going to go thru that again especially since finding out the vaccines were useless and wound up hurting the young people you have to take a stand for the people not biden this time or else you fight for us or get the fk out last chance McCarthy! Do not trust what the FDA and CDC recommend they lied right along with biden the last time remember phony liar fauci we the people don’t we want real impartial scientists reasearch first and formost we trust nobody in government any longer theirs a matter of distrust toward you RINOS in the house and the fake media is just that pathetic liars you giving traitor joe 4.5 trillion dollars to be exact that should never of happened most of it went to Ukraine with the last amount of 12 billion to them and a measly 1.2 million to the people of Maui that comes to $ 700.00 per family for them so who got screwed by biden again AMERICANS get my message McCarthy we he People are watching carefully no miss steps this time your on our side or else! FJB we will not be forced this time old man you do not have that right to force this vaccine on anyone and remember 2024 is close loser!
My sister got Covid Dec 9, 2022 her symptoms weren’t to bad thenthe meds they put her on to get rid of it whipped out her memory for 3 months didn’t even recognize her own daughter for 3 weeks and one month later had to have a CT scan and found two tumors and was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer went thru chemo didn’t help she is now on hospice home care her body’s couldn’t handle more chemo. She went from 169 healthy pounds to 118 lbs currently they say the Covid brought it on! Don’t get the shot it’s not with it!
Biden going have Fauci create a new virus every time elections come up?