Uninsured Americans could pay up to $200 for updated COVID vaccine shots

New COVID vaccines could cost uninsured up to $200 The Bridge Access Program ended early to help trim costs to keep the government running Lois M. Collins Deseret News

Updated COVID-19 vaccines are already showing up on some pharmacy and health provider shelves. But a key program that paid for the vaccines when people lacked coverage is out of money. So those who are under-insured or uninsured could pay up to $200 for the booster.

And public health experts are keeping an eye on a variant that seems to be even more contagious than the one that’s now spreading.

Per The Washington Post, “The federal Bridge Access Program covering the cost of coronavirus vaccines for uninsured and underinsured people ran out of funding. Now Americans with low incomes are weighing whether they can afford to shore up immunity against an unpredictable virus that is no longer a public health emergency but continues to cause long-term complications and hospitalizations and kill tens of thousands of people a year.”

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