President Joe Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine

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President Joe Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine
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President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before

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Republicans will fight him on this, because somehow they’ll find fault in this if a DEMOCRAT does it.

To be fair, the companies are raking in huge profits on the vaccines still. They can afford to do faster research themselves. If the public coffers pay, they should get equity.

Hey, lemme know when we get that dividend for the oil profits we’ve been subsidizing for decades.

You get it in the form of low gas prices.

The only thing we get from those subsidies is an impending end to everything we care about with massive suffering in the mean time.

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A majority of their voters are antivaxxers, so it is not just because a Democrat doing it. It is the fact that it is being done at all.

Not a majority, but a substantial number of them. Majority of Republicans got vaccinated, and even a slim majority favored vaccine mandates, but that eroded as it became a Party talking point.

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