Government scientists are scrambling to decide whether all their coronavirus research can continue after Congress dropped new funding from its budget
NIH staff overseeing dozens of trials for coronavirus treatments, vaccines and variant evolution are spending Friday discussing how to limit or wind down certain trials. | Sergio Flores/Getty ImagesScientists at the National Institutes of Health are scrambling to decide whether all its coronavirus research and development can continue after Congress dropped new funding from“We would like to understand which March activities can be delayed, de-scoped, paused, etc.
The budget crunch comes after House Democrats tossed $15.6 billion in coronavirus relief spending from the omnibus bill earlier this week amid caucus complaints that their states’ assistance would decline to pay for the new relief spending. While Speakerpledged to pass new coronavirus spending separately, stand-alone legislation has a slim chance in the Senate, where many lawmakers have questioned how health agencies spent past funding.
NIH’s key Covid-19 research, or priority items, total roughly $700 million in spending, much of it this month, according to the email. Much of that spending is generated by the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines, or ACTIV, initiative, which houses dozens of trials studying antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines and variant evolution.
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