The pandemic’s not over, but Colorado and the feds are winding down the public health response. So who fills in the gaps?

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Starting next year, the federal government and the state of Colorado plan to play much smaller roles in managing COVID-19, raising questions about who’s going to keep people from falling through the health care system’s cracks.

, though they’re no longer paid for the staff time and incidental expenses of giving them to uninsured people.

“Our goal is to transition procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics from a federally managed system to the commercial marketplace in a thoughtful, well-coordinated manner that leaves no one behind,” she said in aThe federal government is no longer buying and distributing the monoclonal antibody treatment bebtelovimab, which insurers will cover.

At the height of the COVID-19 response, the state contracted to operate dozens of testing sites, offered drive-thru vaccinations in population centers, sent buses to bring testing and shots to rural communities and briefly even had mobile clinics to give antibody treatments to people at high risk of severe disease. As of Sept. 14, the buses and pop-up clinics in underserved areas had delivered more than 450,000 vaccine doses in all 64 counties.

The state’s school testing program also remains in place. As of late August, 28 schools were signed up for weekly rapid testing and five were in the process, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.about 90% of the cost of public testing and vaccination sites, which makes it feasible for Colorado to continue offering them, Bookman said.

 

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The Government doesn’t mind at all if a few people fall thru the cracks

It’s over. Biden proclaimed it so on national TV.

But, Joe said it was over. Is this another lie of his?

🤡🤡🤡

It’s over. Just stop

MegWingerter The prez said it was over…..

MegWingerter 2 percent of young children fully Covid vaccinated. 2 percent of eligible adults getting the new booster. Everyone knows the shots have failed. EVERYONE. The longer public health bureaucrats and politicians lie the worse the blowback will ultimately be.

MegWingerter ITS OVER

THEMSELVES…..

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