The U.S. government shifted control of the strategic national stockpile back to HHS after giving control to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in March, The Washington Post reported.

One of the most important aspects of America’s modern national-defense infrastructure is the mix of medical countermeasures the country holds in its Strategic National Stockpile.

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“We have quite a bit of supply in the Strategic National Stockpile available to support (sending out free COVID-19 tests), so we won’t have any inventory issues,” David Boucher, Ph.D ...

Before FEMA took over, HHS used an allocation formula in which 25 percent of a state’s request for supplies was based on its population and 25 percent on the number of COVID-19 cases. The rest was ...