{"id":410,"date":"2020-04-13T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=410"},"modified":"2020-09-02T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:50:54","slug":"cares-act-expands-immunity-protections-for-covered-countermeasures-and-healthcare-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/13\/cares-act-expands-immunity-protections-for-covered-countermeasures-and-healthcare-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"CARES Act Expands Immunity Protections for Covered Countermeasures and Healthcare Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in our March 18\u00a0<a title=\"Declaration Provides Immunity for Certain COVID-19 Pandemic Medical Countermeasure Activities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/declaration_provides_immunity_certain_covid19_pandemic_medical_countermeasure_activities_0320.html\"><i>Alert<\/i><\/a>, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has issued a\u00a0<a title=\"Notice of Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for medical countermeasures against COVID-19.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phe.gov\/Preparedness\/legal\/prepact\/Pages\/COVID19.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declaration<\/a>\u00a0authorizing drugs, devices and biologics used to treat or mitigate COVID-19 as covered countermeasures under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act. Following Secretary Azar\u2019s declaration of a public health emergency, covered persons may obtain immunity under federal law for all claims arising from manufacturing, distributing or administering covered countermeasures, subject to the conditions laid out at 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 247d-6d, the declaration and other applicable regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent to our previous\u00a0<i>Alert<\/i>, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which expanded the covered countermeasure protections offered by the PREP Act.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/cares_act_expands_immunity_protections_covered_countermeasures_healthcare_volunteers_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in our March 18\u00a0Alert, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has issued a\u00a0declaration\u00a0authorizing drugs, devices and biologics used to treat or mitigate COVID-19 as covered countermeasures under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act. Following Secretary Azar\u2019s declaration of a public health emergency, covered persons may obtain immunity under federal law &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/13\/cares-act-expands-immunity-protections-for-covered-countermeasures-and-healthcare-volunteers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CARES Act Expands Immunity Protections for Covered Countermeasures and Healthcare Volunteers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289,530,24,217,529,531,85,88],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cares-act","tag-countermeasures","tag-healthcare","tag-hhs","tag-immunity","tag-liability","tag-prep-act","tag-public-health-emergency"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}