The drawdown, which begins Monday, includes monoclonal antibodies that have been shown to work against the omicron variant.
A team assembled by the World Health Organization recently visited Wuhan to research where COVID-19 came from, but it could be years before there are clear answers about how the outbreak started.relief stalled in Congress, the federal government plans to begin significantly cutting the number of viral treatments available to the states, according to internal planning documents obtained by ABC News, which show a decrease of some 30%.
Weekly allocations of the monoclonal antibody Sotrovimab from GSK and Vir Biotechnology will be cut from 52,250 to 35,000 through at least the next three weeks, according to the documents, which were verified by two people familiar with the situation., which has so far worked against both the omicron and BA.2 subvariant, will be cut from 49,000 to 30,000 doses.
The White House has also warned that antiviral pills from Pfizer and Merck could run out by September if the government doesn't place more orders soon.
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