Join us in urging Congress to fund free COVID vaccines for underinsured and uninsured adults. The CDC’s Bridge Access Program, which provides COVID vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults, is ending prematurely in August 2024 due to a loss of congressional funding.

Thanks to our community’s advocacy, the CDC voted to recommend the upcoming 2024-2025 vaccine formulations for all ages, 6 months and up. All of us need access to the latest vaccines to reduce the risk of severe disease, reduce the risk of Long COVID, better match currently circulating variants, and combat waning immunity.

Now, we need your help again to demand congressional funding for vaccine access for uninsured and underinsured adults.

You can submit a letter as seen below via our Action Network campaign, keeping our letter in full or editing it as you wish. Letters to elected officials are most effective when they start with a brief personal comment (a sentence or two) about why vaccine access for uninsured people matters to you, your loved ones, and your community.

Letter Template:

I urge you to take action to mandate and fund a program that ensures ongoing free COVID vaccine access for uninsured and underinsured adults. The CDC’s COVID Bridge Access program is ending prematurely in August 2024 due to a lack of sufficient funding. Uninsured adults must not lose access to free COVID vaccines. COVID vaccine access for uninsured and underinsured adults could be accomplished through ongoing maintenance of the Bridge Access program or the proposed Vaccines for Adults program, which would cover all CDC-recommended vaccines.

Over 25 million adults lack adequate health insurance to cover the cost of these lifesaving vaccinations. If the Bridge Access Program ends in August 2024 without an alternative in place, underinsured and uninsured adults are unlikely to have access to the updated COVID vaccinations this fall, which are recommended by the CDC for people of all ages (children and adults, ages 6 months and up). Congress must ensure that every one of us can access the latest COVID vaccines in order to prevent unnecessary development of severe disease and Long COVID amid immunity that wanes in the months following vaccination and the emergence of new variants.

Please take action to fund free COVID vaccines for uninsured and underinsured adults.