#shorts A reporter asked White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, “if I can, on the funding that was — that is being used to purchase the new tests for this new round for people to get them sent to their houses, were there cuts to other COVID programs in order to pay for those tests?

DR. JHA: Yeah, so let me talk about how we’re able to do this. So we paused the program, you know, at the end of the summer … while we took a lot of the resources we had for tests to purchase vaccines and treatments, we still had some resources left; we didn’t use — deplete the whole supply. And so we had money in the American Rescue Plan to still be able to buy some more tests. That combination has allowed us to do this. It is on a limited basis. We’re not going to be able to keep this open forever.

On 12/15/2022, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha joined Karine Jean-Pierre in encouraging Americans to get their updated vaccine as the winter holidays draw near, and answered questions.

On 12/14/2022, US President Joe Biden delivered remarks at the US-Africa Business Forum. Biden on Wednesday hosted African leaders for talks on security and trade. Approximately 50 African heads of state attended. Speaking to African leaders and reading from teleprompter, Biden references the “Glovid-19” pandemic, “save lives and combat Glovid-ni- [sic] — COVID-19. The United States delivered 231 — 231 million doses of vaccines to 49 countries across Africa, and worked together with you to get the vaccines into the arms to har- — in hard-to-reach communities.”

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/SELH-3wGNGE
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