Nullifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate Act
Summary
Nullifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate Act or the NOVID Act This bill establishes the Pandemic Preparedness and Response Program to coordinate and carry out the U.S. government's global health response to COVID-19, its variants, and other pathogens with pandemic potential. As part of the program, the bill requires, within 30 days, the development of a comprehensive strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy must outline efforts to increase COVID-19 vaccinations worldwide, including through the immediate release of the COVID-19 vaccine doses that the United States committed to sending abroad. The bill also requires a long-term strategy for the program to prevent future pandemics.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 8, 2021
Last action Jun 8, 2021
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2
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Committee
1
Jun 8, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
upper
Jun 8, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
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