'After Covid-19 vaccines transitioned to the commercial market last fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped in to ensure that adults without insurance, or those whose insurance plans did not fully cover the vaccine, could receive shots for free. The agency’s Bridge Access Program provided roughly 1.5 million shots, said Dr. Georgina Peacock, the director of the immunization services division at the C.D.C. Nationwide, about 27 million adults do not have health insurance.

But the program ends this month, making it even harder for health centers to provide shots for free. The C.D.C. announced in May that funding for the program, which clinics expected to last through December, would actually run out by the end of August. A spokesman from the C.D.C. said the agency is discussing strategies to increase vaccine access for people without insurance.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/well/cdc-covid-vaccines-free-program.html