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Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness: Vaccine Production and National Stockpile

This act aims to improve future pandemic responses, drawing lessons from COVID-19. It modifies the management of national medical stockpiles, prioritizing domestic production and accelerating vaccine approval processes. The goal is to ensure quicker access to essential resources during future health crises.
Key points
Strengthening national medical stockpiles: Prioritizing US-made products, assessing supply chains, and avoiding Chinese suppliers.
Accelerating vaccine approval: Streamlining emergency use authorization processes, considering data on a rolling basis.
Improving vaccine production: Allowing vaccine production before full approval in crisis situations.
Establishing an Operation Warp Speed Office: A new government unit to coordinate rapid development and production of medical countermeasures during pandemics.
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Additional Information
Print number: 117_S_1604
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Process start date: 2021-05-13