CDC Will Stop Providing Free COVID Vaccines to Uninsured Adults

Published on May 18, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is discontinuing a program that offered free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured adults in the United States, according to the agency’s website. The CDC said in an update that its Bridge Access Program, which offers free COVID-19 vaccines to adults who do not have health insurance or whose insurance does not cover vaccination costs, will end in August. The program was initially scheduled to end in December 2024. More than 1.4 million free COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed to uninsured and underinsured adults since the program was launched in September last year. A CDC spokesperson said the early termination was due to “Congressional rescissions of COVID-19 funds in the FY 2024 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act,” which President Joe Biden signed into law in March....

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