Title: COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures: Intellectual Property and Affordability

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10422

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Testing: Key Issues

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11516

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page report summarizes key issues regarding COVID-19 testing, and explains why both diagnostic and serology testing at scale may be a key component of efforts to ease mitigation measures prior to the development, manufacture, and broad distribution of a vaccine or effective therapeutic.

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Title: COVID-19: Digital Contact Tracing and Privacy Law

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10511

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page report discusses the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule's application to digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the interaction of the HIPAA Privacy Rule with mobile application contact tracing, and other federal laws that regulate data privacy.

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Title: COVID-19: Federal Travel Restrictions and Quarantine Measures

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10415

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19: Global Implications and Responses

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11421

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19: Legal Considerations for Bringing a New Vaccine to Market

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10427

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document discusses the licensure (i.e., approval) process for vaccines under the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) and the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as well as potential legal avenues for expediting that process to bring a new COVID-19 vaccine to market sooner.

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Title: COVID-19: U.S. Public Health Data and Reporting

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11361

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Some observers have called for improved public health surveillance and data reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. This four-page document provides an overview of the current systems and policy considerations for Congress.

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Title: Changes to Behavioral Health Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11450

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Congress and the Administration have initiated changes to behavioral health services in recognition of the need to continue treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. This four-page report discusses those changes, and issues for Congress to consider.

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Title: Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Domestic Policy Issues

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11609

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, Congress may consider whether and how to guide U.S. contact tracing efforts. This three-page document discusses COVID-19-specific aspects of contact tracing, and issues for Congress to consider.

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Title: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Poses Challenges for the U.S. Blood Supply

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11238

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Could the President or Congress Enact a Nationwide Mask Mandate?

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10530

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Several public officials have begun to call for a federal nationwide mask mandate to stem the tide of COVID-19 cases. This four-page document provides an overview of the relevant federal authority to issue such a mandate, as well as other legal considerations for Congress.

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Title: DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)'s Pandemic-Related Programs

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11446

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides information about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and its Biological Technologies Office, which currently supports a number of programs that address pandemics. Since the emergence of COVID-19, DARPA has shifted the efforts of many of these programs to focus specifically on the coronavirus pandemic, which the report discusses.

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Title: Digital Contact Tracing Technology: Overview and Considerations for Implementation

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11559

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, some public health authorities are automating part of the contact tracing process with smartphone apps. This three-page report provides information about "digital exposure notification (DEN)" -- Bluetooth, which allows short-range wireless communications between electronic devices, and apps that may also be used by public health authorities to enable "digital contact tracing" (DCT).

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Title: Domestic Public Health Response to COVID-19: Current Status and Resources Guide

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11253

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page report presents selected information and resources relevant to the domestic public health response to COVID-19 in containing and mitigating the spread and impact of the disease. It provides a table for A Snapshot of the Domestic Public Health Response to COVID-19 from national and international sources.

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Title: Effects of COVID-19 on the Federal Research and Development Enterprise

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46309

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 22-page report discusses how the nation's response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the federal research and development (R&D) enterprise, and the federal government and others are trying to address those effects. A number of congressional and other policy issues may arise as the situation develops.

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Title: Fostering Behavior Change During Disease Outbreaks: Insights from Ebola Response in Africa

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11285

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page report discusses how the challenges and successes of analogous efforts during the two largest Ebola outbreaks to date -- in West Africa (2014-2016), and in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), starting in 2018 and now seemingly waning -- may offer lessons for current efforts to contain COVID-19, even though the two viruses differ in significant ways.

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Title: Legal Issues Related to the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Overview

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10433

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page Legal Sidebar provides a list of resources discussing legal topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including Health Care, Health Coverage, and Medical Countermeasures; Quarantine, Isolation, and Travel Restrictions; Medical Goods, Procurement, and Government Contracts; Economic Issues; and Elections.

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Title: Legal Issues in COVID-19 Vaccine Development

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46399

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The federal government has several authorities that it could exercise should patent rights limit the affordability of or access to a COVID-19 vaccine. This report summarizes this and other legal issues related to COVID-19 vaccine development.

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Title: Overview of U.S. Domestic Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46219

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: PREP Act and COVID-19: Limiting Liability for Medical Countermeasures

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10443

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to limit legal liability for losses relating to the administration of medical countermeasures such as diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines. This report reviews the structure of the PREP Act and the HHS Declaration to explain the scope of this liability immunity as it applies to COVID-19 countermeasures.

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Title: Personal Protective Equipment and Ventilators for COVID-19: FDA Regulation and Related Activities

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11488

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page report provides an overview of how personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns and masks for healthcare personnel, and respiratory devices, including ventilators, are regulated. It summarizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s response to mitigate reported PPE and ventilator shortages related to COVID-19.

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Title: Potential FEMA Emergency Sheltering Options During the COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11440

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may complicate efforts to provide sheltering in typical congregate settings. This report discusses potential emergency sheltering models previously used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and challenges posed by COVID-19, as well as policy considerations.

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Title: Section 1135 Waivers and COVID-19: An Overview

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10430

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States, certain regulatory flexibilities for healthcare entities under Section 1135 of the Social Security Act have been provided. This three-page report summarizes Section 1135 and recent legislative and administrative developments relating to this authority.

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Title: Status of Federal COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Litigation

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10681

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Testing, Testing, (Phase) 1-2-3: Legal Considerations for Clinical Trials of Potential COVID-19 Vaccines

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10483

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page report describes the legal and regulatory framework that governs clinical trials for pharmaceutical products, such as vaccines, and some avenues researchers and Congress may consider for accelerating that process during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: U.S. Blood Supply and the COVID-19 Response: In Brief

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46375

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report provides a brief background of the regulatory framework for the U.S. blood supply, explains the federal response to the current crisis, and discusses potential treatment of COVID-19 using blood-derived products.

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URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46288

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not currently have a specific standard that protects healthcare or other workers from airborne or aerosol transmission of disease or diseases transmitted by airborne droplets. This report describes how some in Congress, and some groups representing healthcare and other workers, are calling on OSHA to promulgate an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect workers from exposure to SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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