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Revamped Senate stimulus bill would provide $27B to HHS to combat pandemic

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March 26, 2020 1:10 AM UTC

The U.S. Senate’s latest COVID-19 stimulus bill would appropriate $340 billion to support local and national agencies to combat the pandemic, including billions for biopharma R&D.

HHS’s Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund would receive $27 billion in funding to develop countermeasures and vaccines, with platform technologies with U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities given priority, according to a version of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act released by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee...