.POTUS Joe Biden promised to rebuild health stockpiles and surge manufacturing after COVID-19 depleted reserves of emergency medical supplies like masks. Funding to rebuild has increased, but work is needed. In the Works.
Funding to rebuild health stockpiles has increased under Biden, but more work needed to meet promise
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, it exposed the shortcomings of the nation's stockpile of emergency medical supplies., but not enough to handle this particular pandemic. For example, there weren't sufficient N95 masks because they were used during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak.
While campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden promised to prepare the country for future pandemics by rebuilding critical health stockpiles, being able to boost manufacturing as needed and reviewing supply chain vulnerabilities. Biden has taken steps toward rebuilding the stockpile, but Congress has not provided long-term funding for it.
The Strategic National Stockpile was created in 1999 to prepare for chemical, radiological, biological or nuclear attacks. It's expanded to include tools to respond to terrorism attacks, hurricanes, the H1N1 flu and ebola. The stockpile contains supplies like N95 masks, medicines and devices that can be used when local and state supplies run out.
But Biden's promise is not exclusively related to COVID-19. New pandemics or threats can emerge, such as
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