HHS Expands and Clarifies Scope of Immunity under the PREP Act | Foley & Lardner LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Back in March, we wrote about how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had extended the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act to grant immunity to “Covered Persons” providing “Covered Countermeasures” against COVID-19. The Office of the General Counsel for HHS issued an omnibus advisory opinion on April 14 that addressed common questions and concerns about the scope of PREP Act immunity, as discussed in our April update. Last month, we described how courts across the country have interprete...
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