The Biden administration is zeroing in on a plan to keep Covid vaccines, treatments and tests free for the uninsured into 2024
, even as it plots a quicker wind-down of its broader pandemic response, four people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO.
Biden health officials are preparing to unravel a sprawling set of pandemic policies over the next several months, as the administration ends the public health emergency on May 11 and moves toward managing the virus as a long-term disease. “Figuring out a way to ensure that cost is not the barrier for people to access vaccines, tests and treatments is essential,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University. “We have seen throughout this pandemic that income is one of the most important determinants of who has been able to protect themselves and who hasn’t.”
“They definitely understand that we’re going back to our longstanding so-called medical care system that leaves a lot of people in the lurch,” said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “But nobody’s heard a definitive plan.” Health officials have explored extending a partnership with pharmacies to provide no-cost Covid testing into 2024, as well distributing tests from its own federal stockpile to places like homeless shelters, food banks and community centers most likely to work with the uninsured.
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