12th Amendment to Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency

Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID–19.

Extend the duration of the Declaration to December 31, 2029.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-12-11/pdf/2024-29108.pdf

The Federal Response to COVID-19

In early 2020, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These funds were made possible through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and other supplemental legislation. In March of 2021, additional funds were appropriated through the American Rescue Plan Act.

https://www.usaspending.gov/disaster/covid-19

Exactly five years ago, on February 4th, 2020, two things happened that almost nobody knows about:

EUA and PREP Act – made by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, were registered on this date.

EUA: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-07/pdf/2020-02496.pdf

PREP Act: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-03-17/pdf/2020-05484.pdf

On February 4, 2020, there were fewer than a dozen confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (later called Covid-19) in the US, and zero deaths. Worldwide, the death count was fewer than 500. There was nothing about the virus, at least as it was presented publicly, that would make anyone believe it posed a threat to national security.