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COVID-19 Vaccine to Be Free in US, Official Says

Steve Baragona

   The Trump administration says it will make an eventual COVID-19 vaccine
   available for free to virtually anyone in the United States who wants
   it.

   Insurance companies are expected to cover the vaccine for most
   Americans, according to a senior administration official at a briefing
   Tuesday to discuss the government's efforts to develop a vaccine by the
   end of the year.

   For those who are not insured, the official added, "Our role as the
   federal government is to ensure anyone who is vulnerable, cannot afford
   it and desires it gets it."

   The official said Americans would get any vaccine produced with federal
   funding before it would be made available to other countries.

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