The White House is rapidly making the COVID-19 drug Paxlovid more available, as the Biden administration puts renewed emphasis on treating COVID-19 rather than trying to prevent it.
But, he said, “If you take a step back and look at the vice president, she’s twice boosted. We have a very, very contagious variant out there. It’s going to be hard to ensure that no one gets COVID in America. That’s not even a policy goal. The goal of our policy should be obviously to minimize infections whenever possible and to make sure people don’t get seriously ill.”
“We are, I believe, at an inflection,” Jha said at his first White House briefing since assuming his role as COVID coordinator. “We know BA.2, the subvariant of Omicron, has become the dominant variant and cases are rising across the country, but hospitalizations are at the lowest level of the pandemic.”
Jha stressed the need for more funding from Congress, which the White House has repeatedly called for to keep vaccines and treatments available to the American people.
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