“Road to Recovery: Ramping Up COVID-19 Vaccines, Testing, and Medical Supply Chain” (Virtual Hearing)
Witnesses
Dr. Luciana Borio
Vice President, In-Q-Tel, Former Acting Chief Scientist, FDA, Former Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness, National Security Council
Mr. Greg Burel
President and Principal Consultant, Hamilton Grace, Former Director, United States Strategic National Stockpile
The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt
Founder and Chair, Leavitt Partners, Former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Former Governor of Utah
Dr. Julie Morita
Executive Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Documents
- Hearing Notice
- Briefing Memo
- Document for the Record – A January 31, 2021 Politico article entitled, “‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries”
- Document for the Record – A March 10, 2020 New York Times article entitled, “‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response”
- Document for the Record – A statement from the Association of American Medical Colleges
- Document for the Record – A letter from AARP
- Document for the Record – A statement from the National Immigration Law Center
- Document for the Record – A statement from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
- Document for the Record – A letter from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Document for the Record – Testimony from Dr. Arthur C. Evans, CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Psychological Association
- Document for the Record – A statement from the American Society for Microbiology
- Document for the Record – A statement from Steven C. Anderson, President and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores
- Document for the Record – HHS’s webpage for all state COVID-19 testing plans
- Document for the Record – A December 5, 2020 Washington Post article entitled, “Trump’s Operation Warp Speed promised a flood of covid vaccines. Instead, states are expecting a trickle.”
- Document for the Record – A report from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “COVID-19 Vaccination Communication: Applying Behavioral and Social Science to Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Foster Vaccine Confidence”
- Document for the Record – A statement from the American Nurses Association
- Document for the Record – January 21, 2021 Executive Order on a Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
- Document for the Record – January 21, 2021 Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
- Document for the Record – January 21, 2021 Executive Order on Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
- Document for the Record – A letter from the Food Industry Association
- Document for the Record – A January 16, 2021 New York Times Article entitled, “Frustrations Boil at Pace of Vaccinations at Long-Term Care Facilities”
- Document for the Record – A November 2020 report from the Government Accountability Office entitled, “COVID-19: Urgent Actions Needed to Better Ensure an Effective Federal Response”
- Document for the Record – A January 6, 2021 NPR article entitled, “Health Workers Still Face Shortages Of Critical Medical Supplies”
- Document for the Record – A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the week of February 1, 2021
- Document for the Record – A July 6, 2020 New York Times article entitled, “Months Into Virus Crisis, U.S. Cities Still Lack Testing Capacity”
- Document for the Record – Testimony from the National Health Care for the Homeless Council
- Document for the Record – The Biden Administration’s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, released in January 2021
- Document for the Record – A December 29, 2020 LA Times article entitled, “Oxygen supply shortages bedevil hospitals already overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients”
- Document for the Record – A January 20, 2021 White House press release entitled, “President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan”
- Document for the Record – A February 1, 2021 New York Times article entitled, “Thousands of Vaccine Appointments Canceled as Supply Lags”
- Document for the Record – A May 4, 2020 Washington Post Article entitled, “Administration leaves testing responsibility to states in report to Congress”
- Document for the Record – A January 31, 2021 STAT News article entitled, “Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall”
- Document for the Record – A January 23, 2021 Reuters article entitled, “U.S. CDC says 41.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 20.5 million administered”
- Document for the Record – A January 21, 2021 Washington Post article entitled, “‘Pixie dust’: Why some vaccine sits on shelves while shortages intensify nationwide”
- Document for the Record – A January 5, 2021 New York Times article entitled, “Warning of Shortages, Researchers Look to Stretch Vaccine Supply”
- Document for the Record – A February 2, 2021 Bloomberg article entitled, “Biden Covid Team Derides Trump Plan While Borrowing Playbook”
- Document for the Record – A January 29, 2021 Wall Street Journal editorial entitled, “No Good Vaccine Deed”
- Document for the Record – A February 1, 2021 Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled, “Why Operation Warp Speed Worked”
- Document for the Record – A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the National Governor’s Association
- Document for the Record – A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the Biden-Harris Transition Team
- Document for the Record – A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the CDC
- Document for the Record – A January 5, 2021 CATO Institute blog post entitled, “American Pharmaceutical Resilience”
- Document for the Record – A January 20, 2021 CATO Institute blog post entitled, “Global Supply Chains and Economic ‘Resilience’: (More) Evidence from the Pandemic”
- Document for the Record – A DoD timeline of Operation Warp Speed
- Document for the Record – A letter from the Healthcare Leadership Council
- Document for the Record – A January 26, 2021 National Journal article entitled, “Operation Warp Speed Staffers Refute Claim Biden Is Starting from Scratch on Vaccines”
- Document for the Record – A statement from the Premier Inc. Healthcare Alliance
- Document for the Record – A January 25, 2021 Science Magazine article entitled, “Proud of vaccine success, Warp Speed’s ex-science head talks politics, presidents, and future pandemics”
- Opening Statement of Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Full Committee
- Opening Statement of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Health
- Opening Statement of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ranking Member of the Full Committee
- Opening Statement of Rep. Brett Guthrie, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health
- Preliminary Hearing Transcript
- Member Attendance