{"id":7273,"date":"2024-08-06T19:36:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2024-08-06T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:36:26","slug":"free-covid-vaccines-will-soon-become-harder-for-some-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/06\/free-covid-vaccines-will-soon-become-harder-for-some-to-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Covid Vaccines Will Soon Become Harder for Some to Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/06\/well\/cdc-covid-vaccines-free-program.html\">NYT<\/a> There are just two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine left in the fridge at Good Samaritan Health Centers of Gwinnett in Norcross, Ga. Once those shots have been used, the nonprofit fears it may have to charge its patients for what was once a free vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce we\u2019re out of it, we\u2019re not going to be able to serve them unless they can pay,\u201d said Greg Lang, chief financial officer at the nonprofit, which serves more than 25,000 uninsured Georgia residents. The shot<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>can cost over $100 out of pocket, plus the charge to administer it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Covid-19 vaccines&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/coronavirus\/commercialization\/index.html#:~:text=Vaccine%20ordering%20through%20USG%20processes,Control%20and%20Prevention%20(CDC).\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transitioned to the commercial market<\/a>&nbsp;last fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped in to ensure that adults without insurance, or those whose insurance plans did not fully cover the vaccine, could receive shots for free. The agency\u2019s Bridge Access Program provided roughly 1.5 million shots, said Dr. Georgina Peacock, the director of the immunization services division at the C.D.C. Nationwide, about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/Quarterly_Estimates_2024_Q11.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27 million adults do not have health insurance.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the program ends this month, making it even harder for health centers to provide shots for free. The C.D.C. announced in May that funding for the program, which clinics expected to last through December, would actually run out by the end of August. A spokesman from the C.D.C. said the agency is discussing strategies to increase vaccine access for people without insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/06\/well\/cdc-covid-vaccines-free-program.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"xdcvfq  yHouT QkX Gf UdcYSxPvf \">xdcvfq  yHouT QkX Gf UdcYSxPvf <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT There are just two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine left in the fridge at Good Samaritan Health Centers of Gwinnett in Norcross, Ga. Once those shots have been used, the nonprofit fears it may have to charge its patients for what was once a free vaccine. \u201cOnce we\u2019re out of it, we\u2019re not going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}