Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was one of the lead negotiators as a Senate committee worked to clear the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act.
The bill passed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday, in a 17-3 vote. Romney, a Republican, is a member of the committee.
"It is an extensive piece of legislation and it is designed to put in place some of the learning that we have as a result of the failures of our response to disasters, whether it was the pandemic or other natural disasters which have occurred," Romney said in hisHe worked alongside Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ranking member and chairman of the committee, respectively, as well as Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., to secure several important additions to the bill.
"COVID-19 showed us that we were ill-equipped to handle a global pandemic of that scale," said Casey. "Three years after COVID, we cannot forget the devastation and fear we all felt, and we must be prepared to fight back against the next public health crises." The virus was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2022, following heart disease, cancer and unintentional injuries, perThe bill seeks to establish a five-year pilot program, the Center for Public Health Data, to track and provide real-time data on infectious diseases, as proposed by Romney.
"I think a lot of us were frustrated that the only way we could get good data on COVID statistics was by going to Johns Hopkins. You'd think that maybe the CDC would have good data, but it didn't," Romney
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