Senator Coons Speaks About Vaccine Distribution – April 12, 2021
Channel: U.S. Senator Chris Coons
Date: 2021-04-12

"The American Rescue Plan is principally focused on getting us out of this pandemic," said Sen. Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. "In Congress, we appropriated $93 billion, and a fair amount of that is specifically to deliver more vaccines. Some of that funding is for contact tracing, some of it's for support for the healthcare workforce that has been so tested and challenged by this pandemic and has done such an amazing job, but a whole lot of it is to get more doses of more vaccines in more arms more quickly. About $16 million of that federal funding comes here to Delaware, specifically, and strengthens the trajectory and the delivery in this effort."