COVID-19: Urgent Federal Actions to Accelerate America’s Response
Leaders from the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Future of Health Care initiative released a report outlining six short-term policy recommendations to address the current challenges presented by the pandemic. The BPC recommends that leaders release a national COVID-19 testing strategy that outlines a path forward to reduce positivity rates in each state to under 5 percent, as well as a national vaccination campaign that ensures efficient vaccine distribution and education on the importance of the vaccine. Additionally, the BPC recommends that the CDC be provided the authority to require states and localities to submit race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 testing, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths on a regular basis to evaluate and address racial disparities.