It is day four since I tested positive for Covid.
My case seems mild. No fever. No loss of taste or smell.
I just feel bad and tired. I’m sleeping a lot.
But worse, so is Congress.
Andy Slavitt is former chief advisor to the Biden Administration on Covid.
About an hour ago (Monday, noon in Chicago) Slavitt tweeted:
Congress is asleep on the job.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation:
A current impasse in Congress threatens continued funding for COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccines. The White House asked Congress for an additional $22.5 billion to support domestic and global COVID-19 efforts. During the recent negotiations to fund the federal government for FY 2022, Congress reduced this amount to $15.6 billion and it was subsequently stripped from the final bill. Without additional resources, the White House has said that several programs will need to be discontinued, including the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) COVID-19 Uninsured Program, established to reimburse health care providers for the costs of delivering COVID-19 testing and treatment services and administering vaccines to those who are uninsured. HRSA has announced that due to lack of funding, the program stopped accepting reimbursement claims for COVID-19 testing and treatment services on March 22, 2022 and will stop accepting claims for vaccine administration on April 5, 2022. In addition, the federal government has said it does not have funding to purchase additional COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines once current supplies run out, and that it does not currently have a sufficient supply for vaccines to cover fourth doses if they are eventually recommended (also the subject of a recent KFF analysis). The lack of additional COVID-19 funding has broad implications for access to these services, particularly for people who are uninsured, and could undermine efforts to ensure equitable access to these resources.
I going back for another nap.
The Democratic Congress continues to sleep through the plague.