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"Just as we've reached a critical turning point in this fight, Congress must provide the funding America needs to continue to fight COVID-19.

We're already seeing the consequences of Congressional inaction.

Take monoclonal antibodies. They've helped save lives.

This isn't partisan. It's medicine. But Congress hasn't provided enough money to keep purchasing them.

Without more funding we'll start to run out by the end of May.

We've also had to scale back our plan to purchase more preventive therapies for Americans who are immunocompromised.

Critical tools to protect the most vulnerable among us.

Without more funding we risk running out of supply this fall.

The same is true for testing.

It took months to ramp up our testing capacity. But without funding, we won't be able to sustain our testing capacity beyond June.

If we fail to invest now we'll leave ourselves vulnerable if another wave hits.

And on vaccines, we're also running a risk.

If Congress fails to act we won't have the supply we need this fall to ensure that shots are available for free and easy to access for all Americans.

We cannot allow that to happen. Congress needs to act now.

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