President Joe Biden received his second COVID-19 booster shot on Wednesday, a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the additional dose for Americans aged 50 and older.
Before Biden got the shot in front of reporters at the White House, he urged Congress to pass additional funding for his administration’s COVID-19 response program, which supplies free vaccines, tests and treatments for Americans and has run out of money after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement.
“This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine,” Biden said. “Americans are back to living their lives again; we can’t surrender that now. Congress, please act. You have to act immediately.”
Funding for the program was originally part of a larger government spending bill that Biden signed into law earlier in the month, but Democrats and Republicans were divided over the proposed $15 billion that would go towards things like booster shots, new vaccines and antiviral pills. Republicans objected, asking to first get details on how the previous funding was used, which health officials criticized, saying that they’ve sent that information already.
The money was stripped from the bill and Democrats said that they will instead work to pass a standalone bill for COVID-19 funding, but that has yet to happen, and as of last week uninsured Americans are no longer able to get reimbursed for testing and treatments.
Without the money, Biden added, the U.S. could be unprepared for any new COVID-19 variants.
“Even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, we’re not going to have enough money to purchase it. We cannot allow that to happen,” he said.
Biden, who got a second booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, also promoted the White House’s new website, covid.gov, which now has information on where Americans can go for testing, treatments, vaccines and masks in one spot.
Americans over 50 like Biden, along with those 18 and older who are immunocompromised, are eligible to get a second booster dose if it has been at least four months since their last one. The Biden administration had urged the FDA to make this recommendation with research showing that the vaccine’s protection against infection starts to wane after three months, and as the omicron subvariant BA.2 spreads in the U.S.
Some people are criticizing Biden because they are saying that the photos are obviously staged. It shows him getting the vaccination, but it doesn’t look like the cap is removed from the needle. It also doesn’t look like Biden’s skin was punctured.
Some say it is all camera angles and lighting to make it look like he was vaccinated. It looks like the shot is being held behind his arm and gives off the illusion that it’s being administered properly.
No comment was made from President Biden or his administration against these claims.
Sure looks like the needle is behind the arm. I don’t believe he got the first or second one either. All show & tell. Did he grimace on cue?
Did biden really get a poison covid shot or just saline?? I don’t believe any politicians are actually getting the real poison covid shots. The government is really only giving them to people like you and me. We don’t count. We are expendable. Why are only non essential people having bad side effects and death?? Because we mean nothing. Especially elderly and children. They don’t work and contribute to the economy.
Open your eyes America, the shots, the real shots, are meant to kill
Hopefully The Dipshit-n-Chief has an adverse reaction and dies !
One thing you can bet your butt on! The closer we get to November elections the more of this covid things going to surface and try to do the same thing they did last time to screw up the election
That was a shot of Saline (water).
The first shot he took he was all smiles. It didn’t hurt, he said. This one he looked more like somebody getting a shot. No matter. I don’t believe he really took either one.
its behind his arm just like the video where he and the other democrats got their fake shots
Sorry Brandon, it’s actually not medicine, it is poison.