American Hospital Association January 26, 2022
Leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee today released for comment until Feb. 4 a discussion draft of bipartisan legislation to strengthen the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a committee summary, the PREVENT Pandemics Act would:
- create a bipartisan task force to review the COVID-19 response;
- require a strategic plan for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Senate to confirm the agency’s director;
- give the Secretary of Health and Human Services additional authority to coordinate the federal response to a public health emergency, and contract with public and private entities to more rapidly develop diagnostic tests for emerging...
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