A $2.5 Billion Plan to Thwart Omicron-Like Variants Is Stalled Inside the Biden Administration

For the past year, public health experts have warned that leaving swaths of the world unvaccinated would be a recipe for incubating dangerous variants that could evade vaccines and prolong the fight against COVID-19. It’s still too early to tell whether omicron is the escape variant of virologists’ nightmares, but its sudden emergence has refocused attention on the lagging effort to vaccinate the globe. Activists and even some federal health officials have criticized President Biden for slow-walking global vaccine donations, micromanaging distribution efforts through a small White House team (as first reported in Vanity Fair), and not forcing vaccine makers… Read Full Article