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President Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced his administration’s new website, COVID.gov, designed to be a “one-stop shop” for the latest pandemic information, as well as a means of providing access to vaccines, tests, treatments and masks on a single site.
Biden unveiled the site while asking Congress to approve an additional $22 billion in emergency funding to help continue the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re now in a new moment in this pandemic. It does not mean COVID-19 is over, it means COVID-19 no longer controls our lives,” Biden said before he revealed details about Covid.gov.
As part of COVID.gov, a new Test-to-Treat locator will help people access pharmacies and community health centers across the nation where people can get tested for COVID-19 and receive appropriate treatments if they need them.
President Biden announced the Test-to-Treat initiative in his State of the Union address earlier this month. Since that time, the Administration says they have already launched over 2,000 of these sites, plus more than 240 sites across Veteran’s Health Administration and Department of Defense facilities to serve veterans, military personnel, and their families.
During his announcement, President Biden warned that the country will run out of COVID-19 resource funding by the end of May if Congress doesn’t act now.
“Without more funding, we risk running out of supplies by the fall,” he said.
Biden also received his second booster dose after his announcement.
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cleared the way for another shot for anyone 50 and older, who can get the additional booster at least four months after their last vaccination. Severely immune-compromised patients, such as organ transplant recipients, as young as 12, are also eligible.
