STAT+: Pharmalittle: Biden administration used hospital funds to buy Covid vaccines and drugs; a cancer drug may help combat HIV

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The Biden administration quietly took nearly $7 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and clinics affected by the pandemic and used it to buy Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics , STAT reports. The move is similar to a Trump administration decision to divert $10 billion from the same fund to Operation Warp Speed. Now, the hospital money, known as the Provider Relief Fund, has run dry, and has no new money left to allocate, according to the agency that administers it. Providers have only been able to submit requests for expenses incurred through March 2021 — before both the Delta and Omicron surges battered the health care system. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…