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Senate hearing spotlights COVID-related drug, PPE supply chain issues

industryview / iStock This week four experts testified at a US Senate committee about the impacts of personal protective equipment (PPE) and drug shortages during COVID-19, the effectiveness of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), and what kind of steps leaders must take to be better prepared for the next public health emergency. The group spelled out the situation and the consequences of fragile supply chains before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing, COVID-19 Part II: Evaluating the Medical Supply Chain and Pandemic Response Gaps. Today we are in the final miles of the pandemic, but our public health crisis isn t completely over, said one of the experts, Shereef Elnahal, MD, president and chief executive officer of University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.

New models for pandemic response can be found in existing agencies

© Getty Images As we start the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic under a new administration and we get our country on the road to recovery, it is time to take steps to improve the federal government’s structure for future pandemics. A combination of staffing and structural changes at the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services are needed, as was pointed out by the former White House Ebola response coordinator under President Obama, Ron Klain Following the Ebola outbreak of 2014, Klain outlined several measures the federal government should take to combat future pandemics, which he and the current Director of National Intelligence agreed are national security threats of the highest priority.  

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