WATCH: White House COVID coordinator warns of a surge in winter
Politics Updated on Jun 2, 2022 5:40 PM EDT — Published on Jun 2, 2022 2:16 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0phUPrhcsQ&ab_channel=PBSNewsHourThe White House COVID-19 coordinator issued a dire warning Thursday about the nation’s ability to battle a potential pandemic surge this fall if Congress fails to provide billions more dollars to brace for the next wave.
Speaking at the White House briefing, Dr. Ashish Jha said the government purchased a large amount of both vaccines and therapeutics that will get the country through the summer, even with rising case numbers.
But he warned, those tools will begin to run out by the fall and winter, a time when some models show there could be “a sizeable wave of infections.”
“That’s where I start getting very, very concerned. I mean, you want to ask what keeps me awake at night? It is that we are going to run out of vaccines,” Jha said.
“We’re not going to able to have enough of the next generation of vaccines. We are going to run out of treatments and we’re going to run out of diagnostic tests probably in the late fall into winter if we end up having a significant surge of infections. We don’t have the resources to buy those things. And those purchases need to be made now,” he underscored.
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