Fierce Healthcare January 26, 2022
The heads of a key Senate health committee released a bipartisan road map Tuesday outlining how the legislative branch will review the government’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic and take a more proactive approach to the next public health emergency.
“COVID-19 has forced us to have hard conversations on the state of our nation’s pandemic and public health preparedness and response capabilities,” Senator Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said in a statement.
“As the response to COVID-19 continues to evolve, we must reflect on the lessons learned from the last two years and determine where we were successful, where we failed and what we did not anticipate so...