Governor Cooper Urges Congress To Pass Supplemental Funding For COVID-19 Response
Letter to NC Congressional Delegation Outlines Supplemental Funding Package Needed to Invest in COVID-19 Testing, Treatment and Vaccines
RALEIGH – Governor Roy Cooper sent a letter to the North Carolina Congressional Delegation urging Congress to act immediately on a funding package for COVID-19 so that the state can stay ready in the event of a future surge.
“North Carolina’s COVID-19 metrics continue to decline, ushering in a new phase of COVID-19 where the virus is still with us but not disrupting us. However, to succeed in this phase and not go backward, Congress must act immediately on the pending COVID-19 supplemental funding package so we can prepare for the next surge and stop it from overwhelming us,” wrote Governor Cooper in the letter.
The letter urges Congress to make national investments in vaccines, boosters, therapeutics and testing to help sustain the production of supplies. Stable, consistent federal funding will support production and supply efforts.
This week, North Carolina has seen its allocation of highly effective monoclonal antibody treatments reduced by more than 30 percent due to insufficient federal funds. The state has exceeded its budgeted funds for testing due to back-to-back Delta and Omicron surges and record-setting community testing efforts. The Governor’s letter encourages leaders to stockpile supplies to prepare for future threats.
The COVID-19 Uninsured Program has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to North Carolina providers as reimbursement for testing, treatment and vaccination administrations for the uninsured. The Uninsured Program has stopped accepting new claims for testing and treatment and will soon stop accepting new vaccination claims. Without the supplemental funding package, providers will have to absorb the cost or turn away the uninsured, people who are already high-risk for health crises.
Governor Cooper urges the North Carolina Congressional Delegation to prioritize the COVID-19 funding and to not offset this spending by reducing other COVID-19 relief funding received by the state. The other funding is critical to the state’s ongoing recovery efforts for businesses, high-speed internet and local government support.
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This was, and has all been about money. The mandates, masks, hysteria has always been driven by the states greed for money. Governor cooper admitted as much when he stated he would not remove the state of emergency because they would lose federal funding. There is no longer an emergency, not that there ever was. Much of the money that was allotted for the initial break out of the plandemic, has not even been spent yet. I am calling on the Johnston County board of Ed as well as Johnston health to publish their expenditures on Covid response as well as the money they received from the federal government. What are the chances?
You nailed it! It’s all about the money the government thinks they have but don’t! Now inflation is going through the roof and they just keep printing and spending driving inflation even higher! No one is going to be able to afford a thing pretty soon.
The chances are slim, to none, but you nailed it, Mr. Ziskey, I agree with all you said.