Hearing: “Road to Recovery: Ramping Up COVID-19 Vaccines, Testing, and Medical Supply Chain” (Virtual Hearing)

Subcommittee on Health (Committee on Energy and Commerce)

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Washington, D.C.

Witnesses

Support Documents

• Hearing Notice [PDF]
• Briefing Memo [PDF] Added 01/29/2021 at 05:45 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 31, 2021 Politico article entitled, “‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from the Association of American Medical Colleges [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from AARP [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from the National Immigration Law Center [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from the American Academy of Family Physicians [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - Testimony from Dr. Arthur C. Evans, CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Psychological Association [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from the American Society for Microbiology [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from Steven C. Anderson, President and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - HHS’s webpage for all state COVID-19 testing plans [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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.” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from the American Nurses Association [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - January 21, 2021 Executive Order on a Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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 [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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 [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from the Food Industry Association [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 16, 2021 New York Times Article entitled, “Frustrations Boil at Pace of Vaccinations at Long-Term Care Facilities” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 6, 2021 NPR article entitled, “Health Workers Still Face Shortages Of Critical Medical Supplies” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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 [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A July 6, 2020 New York Times article entitled, “Months Into Virus Crisis, U.S. Cities Still Lack Testing Capacity” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - Testimony from the National Health Care for the Homeless Council [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - The Biden Administration’s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, released in January 2021 [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A December 29, 2020 LA Times article entitled, “Oxygen supply shortages bedevil hospitals already overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 20, 2021 White House press release entitled, “President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A February 1, 2021 New York Times article entitled, “Thousands of Vaccine Appointments Canceled as Supply Lags” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A May 4, 2020 Washington Post Article entitled, “Administration leaves testing responsibility to states in report to Congress” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 21, 2021 Washington Post article entitled, “‘Pixie dust’: Why some vaccine sits on shelves while shortages intensify nationwide” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 5, 2021 New York Times article entitled, “Warning of Shortages, Researchers Look to Stretch Vaccine Supply” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A February 2, 2021 Bloomberg article entitled, “Biden Covid Team Derides Trump Plan While Borrowing Playbook” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 29, 2021 Wall Street Journal editorial entitled, “No Good Vaccine Deed” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A February 1, 2021 Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled, “Why Operation Warp Speed Worked” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the National Governor’s Association [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the Biden-Harris Transition Team [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the CDC [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 5, 2021 CATO Institute blog post entitled, “American Pharmaceutical Resilience” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A January 20, 2021 CATO Institute blog post entitled, “Global Supply Chains and Economic ‘Resilience’: (More) Evidence from the Pandemic” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A DoD timeline of Operation Warp Speed [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A letter from the Healthcare Leadership Council [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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” [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Document for the Record - A statement from the Premier Inc. Healthcare Alliance [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• 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" [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM

Member Statements

• Opening Statement of Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Full Committee [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Health [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ranking Member of the Full Committee [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Brett Guthrie, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM

Hearing Record

• Preliminary Hearing Transcript [PDF] Added 02/08/2021 at 05:25 PM
• Member Attendance [PDF] Added 03/26/2021 at 10:18 AM

First Published: January 28, 2021 at 05:17 PM
Last Updated: August 6, 2021 at 10:36 AM