Congress said it would figure out COVID money after sending aid to Ukraine. It hasn’t.
The amount of the coronavirus samples that have shown up in wastewater have recently shown a spike in the B.A.2 subvariant of omicron. It’s not just our sewer systems that are hinting at a coming COVID surge: Caseloads are up in the U.K. and Hong Kong, along with hospitalizations are on the rise there, too. Nobody wants to hear about the potential for another virus surge, but is the U.S.
, I spoke with Dan Diamond, a health care reporter at the Washington Post, about what’s next for the pandemic and the federal response. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.Mary Harris: What happened when the White House and Congress tried to work together to get some funding for COVID aid? It was supposed to be part of a Ukraine aid package.Starting a few weeks ago, the White House began amping up calls for aid specifically to fund the country’s COVID response.
We’ve spent trillions of dollars over these past few years. Why weren’t we better prepared for omicron? Where were the tests that we needed? Where did all the money go for these supplies? Why should we set aside additional money now?This was not exclusively a Republican issue, though the Republicans were loudest about it. The White House has had some trouble answering those questions. The Democrats in Congress then said,.
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