HHS Shields Fed Employees, Volunteers Giving Vaccines From Liability

HHS will extend liability protections under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act to any federal government employee, contractor or volunteer who prescribes, administers, delivers, distributes or dispenses a covered countermeasure, including COVID-19 vaccines, the department announced Friday (Feb. 12) . The announcement comes amid a push by the Biden administration to ramp up the vaccinator workforce and set up more vaccination sites to increase the administration of COVID-19 vaccines as they become increasingly available. The extension is the sixth...