{"id":229,"date":"2020-04-24T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/?p=229"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:33:23","slug":"hhs-clarifies-broad-scope-of-immunity-protection-under-the-prep-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2020\/04\/24\/hhs-clarifies-broad-scope-of-immunity-protection-under-the-prep-act\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Clarifies Broad Scope of Immunity Protection Under the PREP Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health &amp; Human Services (HHS) has\u00a0<a title=\"Advisory Opinion on the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act \" href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/prep-act-advisory-opinion-april-14-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provided<\/a>\u00a0an omnibus advisory opinion in response to various requests for clarification of the scope of tort immunity provided by the\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>\u00a0under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The PREP Act declaration provides immunity from tort liability for various persons, products and activities in response to COVID-19, as explained in our March 17, 2020,\u00a0<i><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\">Alert<\/a><\/i>. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) subsequently\u00a0<a title=\"CARES Act Expands Immunity Protections for Covered Countermeasures and Healthcare Volunteers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/cares_act_expands_immunity_protections_covered_countermeasures_healthcare_volunteers_0420.html\">expanded<\/a>\u00a0these protections.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/department_health_human_services_clarifies_broad_scope_immunity_protection_prep_act_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health &amp; Human Services (HHS) has\u00a0provided\u00a0an omnibus advisory opinion in response to various requests for clarification of the scope of tort immunity provided by the\u00a0declaration\u00a0under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The PREP Act declaration provides immunity from tort liability for various persons, products and activities in response to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2020\/04\/24\/hhs-clarifies-broad-scope-of-immunity-protection-under-the-prep-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HHS Clarifies Broad Scope of Immunity Protection Under the PREP Act&#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":[430,429,26,436,469,470,471],"ppma_author":[521],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-hhs","tag-prep-act","tag-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act","tag-tort-immunity","tag-u-s-department-of-health-and-human-services"],"authors":[{"term_id":521,"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\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}