With the nation's COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, officials have said they will only provide free vaccines until supply runs out. But companies that make the shots say people without insurance will still continue to have access.
Why are we still seeing new COVID-19 variants like XBB.1.5? Here's what we know.Even though the government's supply of COVID-19 vaccines is likely to run out this summer or fall, people without insurance will continue to have access, companies that make the shots say.to make its Spikevax vaccine available at no cost to the uninsured through its patient assistance program.
Pfizer, which makes the Comirnaty vaccine with its German partner BioNTech, has already promised that U.S. residents who lack insurance will be covered by its own patient assistance program. Morita said late Wednesday she has been concerned that the uninsured, many of whom have been hardest hit by the pandemic, would be deprived access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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