More on the workings of the war machine running on public health emergency determinations, PREP Act license-to-kill declarations, and EUA countermeasures.
At the request of a reader, I’ve been digging deeper into the complex, deceptive and misleading legal language used by unindicted war criminals, to extend the public health emergency-predicated killing spree on American soil, while they publicly claim that the public health emergency has been ended.
I’m trying to write up my findings.
The machinations revolve around terms and phrases including is, exists, constitutes, significant potential for-, credible risk of a future-, and category of disease, health condition, or threat, and concurrent but distinct PHE determinations issued under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) and the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDCA).
One PHE determination, issued under Public Health Service Act (PHSA) Section 319(a) [42 USC 247d(a)] on Jan. 31, 2020, retroactive to Jan. 27, 2020, and extended every 90 days thereafter, was allowed to expire on May 11, 2023.
This series of PHSA PHE determinations was not, to my knowledge, promulgated through the Federal Register. Announcements simply appeared at the HHS-ASPR website, most recently Feb. 9, 2023 (the 90-day renewal that expired May 11, 2023)
On May 11, 2023, another PHE determination under the PHSA, this time Section 319(b)(1) [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(1)] took effect, and was published in the Federal Register as part of a PREP Act declaration amendment.
“SARS-CoV-2…constitutes a credible risk of a future public health emergency” replaced the original, Jan. 27, 2020 wording: “SARS-CoV-2…constitutes a public health emergency.”
Meanwhile, four public health emergency determinations under the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDCA) Section 564(b)(1)(C), [21 USC 360bbb-3(b)(1)(C)] have been in continuous legal force since the first one took effect on Feb. 4, 2020.
A fifth, amended FDCA public health emergency determination joined the first four, effective March 15, 2023.
The FDCA PHE determinations were promulgated through the Federal Register at 85 FR 7316, 85 FR 13907, 85 FR 17335, 85 FR 18250, and 88 FR 16644.
FDCA PHE determinations are issued without expiration dates; termination is solely at the discretion of the HHS secretary. FDCA 564(b)(2) [21 USC 360bbb-3(b)(2)].
Meanwhile, the original PREP Act declaration issued under PHSA 319(b)(1) [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(1)], signed March 10, 2020, published in the Federal Register March 17, 2020, (85 FR 15198) retroactive to Feb. 4, 2020, and its 11 amendments promulgated between March 17, 2020 and May 11, 2023, had an original termination date of Oct. 1, 2024.
By amendment effective May 11, 2023 (88 FR 30769), the current [PREP Act declaration] termination date is Dec. 31, 2024, and the termination date can be pushed back further, also solely at the discretion of the HHS secretary.
Re-posting some previous reports on the subject below.
Sept. 27, 2022 - On why Biden’s comment that ‘the pandemic is over’ doesn’t lift the bioterrorist police state jackboot off our necks.
Reader question:
As to the PREP Act, I am curious why we are not insisting that when Biden declared Covid as over, the PREP Act is over too.
My reply, revised and expanded:
There are at least three Covid-related state of emergency declarations still in force.
Biden saying that the pandemic is over in a press conference doesn’t officially revoke the presidential declarations and proclamations of a national emergency due to Covid, issued under the National Emergencies Act of 1976 and the Stafford Act of 1988.
These were first issued by Trump on March 13, 2020 (NEA; Stafford) and have been renewed annually by Biden in early 2021 and early 2022.
President Biden’s press conference comments also don’t revoke the ‘public health emergency’ declaration issued by HHS Alex Azar on Jan. 31, 2020 (retroactive to Jan. 27, 2020) under Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, as added in 1983 and amended by the 2005 PREP Act to put the power to declare public health emergencies into HHS secretary’s unilateral hands.
All three of these Covid-era emergency declarations have been extended repeatedly by Trump, Biden, Azar and Becerra.
The HHS Secretary public health emergency declaration was most recently extended on July 15, 2022, with the next extension expected before the current one expires Oct. 13, 2022.
In addition, the state of national emergency proclaimed by President Bush on Sept. 14, 2001 in response to ‘terrorism’ under the 1976 law is still in force. It has been renewed every year since by Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden.
All four of these declarations and proclamations triggered expanded federal government authorities and limits to state, local and individual power, at least until a federal court finds that the proclamations — and the 1976, 1988, 2005 and related statutes under which they’ve been issued — are unconstitutional, null and void.
Or until Congress repeals the enabling statutes.
Or until the People of one or more states, working independent of the federal government through their own legislatures, governors, courts and state constitutions, block the effect of these federal power grabs within their own state borders as unconstitutional, null and void violations of the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Several members of Congress, led by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, have attempted to pass legislation to terminate the emergency declarations, without success. Marshall’s bill passed the Senate in March 2022, but the House refused to take it up, and Biden promised to veto it.
Even if such a bill got through Congress with a veto-proof majority, the biomedical police state laws on the books specifically exclude Congressional and court review of HHS declarations and actions. (See, for example, 42 USC 247d-6d(b)(7), as amended in 2005 by PREP Act, blocking court review.)
Again, the beatings will continue until
morale improvesa federal court finds the enabling statutes including the 2005 PREP Act, the 1988 Stafford Act, and the 1976 National Emergencies Act are now and have always been unconstitutional.Or until Congress repeals those laws with veto-proof majorities.
Or until individual states take steps to block the effect of those federal laws within their own state borders.
The legal conditions for suspending all conflicting laws and constitutional rights are still firmly in place, for so long as the federal courts, Congress and each state government allows the federal executive usurpation under emergency declarations and proclamations, and the statutes authorizing those executive proclamations, to remain in force.
March 22, 2023 - On the utility, for inducing peaceful compliance with violent globalist control-and-kill programs, of presenting fake threats as real. Plus war criminal Xavier Becerra extends the public health emergency, effective March 15, 2023, using slightly-different wording.
Yesterday, someone sent me a March 20, 2023 Federal Register notice on the extension of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) declarations and determinations.
The sender asked me "whether that EUA amendment I sent you made substantive changes, or was this just a regular extension?"
I replied that there are enough redundancies built in throughout the PHE and EUA declaration and determination procedures, and they’re both unreviewable by Congress and courts anyway, that the wording of any particular one isn’t worth spending a lot of time to parse in detail.
[Note: when criminal prosecutions are eventually brought against specific war criminals, these documents will be part of the evidence incriminating the signatories. At that point, parsing the documents in detail will be extremely important, to tie the dates, circumstances and effects of specific acts taken in furtherance of the war crimes, to the people who committed those acts.]
The latest iteration slightly alters the original, false claims.
In the original determination of public health emergency, effective Feb. 4, 2020, a war criminal impersonating the US-HHS Secretary (Alex Azar) claimed that “there is a public health emergency that has a significant potential to affect national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad” and that the emergency “involves a novel (new) coronavirus (nCoV) first detected in Wuhan City, China.”
In the latest amendment to the determination of public health emergency, effective March 15, 2023, a war criminal impersonating the US-HHS Secretary (Xavier Becerra) claimed that the nCoV outbreak has already infected and killed millions of people, and that there are now variations circulating, such that “there is a public health emergency, or a significant potential for a public health emergency, that affects, or has a significant potential to affect, national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad.”
The two forms of PHE “determination” are used interchangeably, to provide pseudo-legal pretexts for COVID–19 Emergency Use Authorization/EUA declarations (which are, more accurately, military orders to deploy bioweapons labeled as ‘vaccines’ to injure and kill recipients) and amendments thereto.
For emphasis, Becerra added to the latest notice:
“…The four previously-issued section 564 declarations that refer to the February 4, 2020 determination have not been terminated by the Secretary because, among other things, the circumstances described in section 564(b)(1) continue to exist — i.e., COVID–19, a disease attributable to SARS–CoV–2, continues to present a public health emergency, or a significant potential for a public health emergency, that affects, or has a significant potential to affect, national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad…”
As with all effective lies, there are kernels of truth within most HHS Secretary notices, declarations and determinations.
The emergency that existed in January 2020, and still exists, is a group of war criminals, coordinating with each other worldwide, as participants in a criminal enterprise that “involves” the novel coronavirus pretext as a pseudo-legal mechanism to suspend lawful government functions; instill fear; suppress critical thinking, public debate, alternative treatments, comparative assessment of threats, biomedical ethics obligations and rights, and self-preservation instincts; and induce peaceful compliance with lethal injection programs labeled as ‘vaccine’ programs.
For the purpose of making it easier for mass murderers to get away with mass murder…
One other purpose of the new, March 15, 2023 determination, is to de facto void the Jan. 30, 2023 announcement that the public health emergency would end effective May 11, 2023.
Biden, on behalf of his central banker handlers, made that announcement to:
undercut then-pending Congressional action (H.R. 382, approved by House Jan. 31, 2023, 220 to 210, and H.J. Res. 7, approved by House Feb. 1, 2023, 229 to 197), without actually relinquishing emergency executive powers; and
prevent any further consideration of the termination bills by Congress, because Congressional debate would make the Constitutional crisis triggered by the Covid-19 control-and-kill program through the enabling statutes and regulations, much more visible to the American people.
FDA offers a slide from an April 2015 FDA slide deck [slide 19] outlining changes to EUA law effected by 2013 Congressional passage of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA).
The chart shows how many different ways mass murdering war criminals pretending to be US government officials can declare and maintain "emergency" powers to kill people using bioweapons fake-named as EUA ‘vaccines’ and other countermeasures, including events for which there may not even be fake evidence of a threat, but for which the war criminals claim there is "significant potential" of a future threat.
It’s very similar to the gradual addition of "asymptomatic" and "precommunicable" stages of disease, to the original “symptomatic” stage, authorizing the HHS Secretary to order the military and local law enforcement to arrest and detain civilians indefinitely under 42 USC 264 and related regulations and executive orders.1
These war criminal assessments, like all the other determination and declaration procedures rendered visible through the Covid-19 global crime, are assessments placed by Congress and US Presidents, solely in Cabinet secretary hands, and — for so long as they remain unchallenged by Congress members and judges, three years and counting — not subject to Congressional or judicial review or termination.
Many paths.
Same herd-culling destination.
The death machine will keep running until some combination — of Congress, courts, state governments, the People and/or some other political force TBD — cuts off the statutory fuel and the funding.
April 11, 2023 - Biden rescinding Trump-Biden Proclamation 9994 under 1976 National Emergencies Act does not terminate Azar-Becerra’s Public Health Emergency authorities under 1983 PHE amendment to the 1944 PHSA. Becerra and his successors will extend the PHE until they no longer need it to kill people with pseudo-legal impunity. Or until Congress, federal judges or states repeal or nullify the enabling acts.
A reader emailed today, linking to a Feb. 9, 2023 Health and Human Services Fact Sheet: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Transition Roadmap and asking questions about the legal effects of Biden’s recent signature on House Joint Resolution 7.
“HJR 7 - Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622), the national emergency declared by the finding of the President on March 13, 2020, in Proclamation 9994 (85 Fed. Reg. 15337) is hereby terminated.”
April 10, 2023 - Biden Signs Measure Ending COVID-19 National Emergency (Jeff Louderback, Epoch Times) - “President Joe Biden on April 10 signed a measure that immediately ended the COVID-19 national emergency more than three years after it was enacted, the White House announced. HJ Res 7 passed through the Senate on March 29 by a 68-23 margin, with 21 Democrats joining 47 Republicans to support the measure. Four Republicans and five Democrats did not cast a vote—and 23 Democrats voted against the short resolution—which was introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) last month and passed by the House 229-197 on Feb. 1.”
The reader asked: “Does the PHE actually expire? It appears that they are extending most of the PHE provisions with other mechanisms, [including] free vaccine and PREP Act protection. Can you tell whether the HHS Secretary "Tyranny Powers" are being released on May 11?”
My reply, revised and expanded:
No, the HHS Secretary PHE powers are not terminated on May 11.
There are at least three interlocking frameworks for the consolidation of power in executive hands during declared emergencies: the 1976 National Emergencies Act, the 1988 Stafford Act, and the 1944 Public Health Service Act as amended in 1983 to add the Public Health Emergencies (PHE) program.
Congress and Biden have rescinded the emergency proclamation issued under the 1976 National Emergencies Act, but the Public Health Emergency declaration issued by then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Jan. 31, 2020, effective Jan. 27, 2020, remains in force, along with the Stafford Act determination Trump issued on March 13, 2020.
The National Emergencies Act Proclamation 7463 Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks, issued by President Bush in September 2001 and renewed annually since then, also remains in force, along with the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force passed under the 1973 War Powers Act, and any secret orders that may exist without Congressional or public knowledge, such as PEADs (Presidential Emergency Action Documents) and Continuity of Government (COG) orders.
The emergency authorities held by the Health and Human Services Secretary under the Public Health Emergency (PHE) program of the 1944 Public Health Service Act, as established by Congress and President Reagan in 1983 and expanded by Congress and Presidents Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump and Biden since then will not expire in May.
Current HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra recently — very quietly — extended his Public Health Emergency authority and derivative Emergency Use Authorization power, using slightly different wording, through a Federal Register notice effective March 15, 2023.
The HHS Secretary him or herself (Becerra or a successor) is the only person authorized to end the PHE and terminate his own emergency powers, unless and until Congress repeals the enabling acts, federal judges nullify the enabling acts, and/or state governments nullify the enabling acts to block the illegitimate exercise of federal authority at their own state borders.
How did these extraordinary powers get into Becerra’s hands?
Congress and US Presidents unlawfully and unconstitutionally (de facto but not de jure) transferred Congress’s own power, the power of the federal courts, and the power of the states, into the HHS Secretary’s unilateral, unreviewable control, through amendments to the 1944 Public Health Service Act codified at 42 USC 247d-6d, Targeted liability protections for pandemic and epidemic products and security countermeasures and related statutes, executive orders and regulations.
42 USC 247d-6d(b)(7): No access to courts for judicial review of the facts or law relating to HHS Secretary public health emergency declarations and medical
countermeasures product classifications.42 USC 247d-6d(b)(8): Preempts authority of state, local and tribal governments and individuals to manage public health emergency and medical countermeasures classification and regulation outside of HHS/DOD.
42 USC 247d-6d(b)(9): Extremely limited obligation for HHS to report to Congress on public health emergency status and EUA medical countermeasures classifications, and no authorization for Congress to override HHS declarations, determination, and decisions.
National Emergencies Act Proclamation 9994 issued by President Trump and extended by President Biden might expire in May — that’s what Biden’s signature on HRJ 7 means.
But the termination of the NEA proclamation isn’t enough to bring the Constitutional disaster to a close, because the HHS secretary’s Public Health Emergency powers are exercised independent of the NEA declaration.
Aug. 28, 2023 - March 15, 2023 and May 11, 2023 HHS Dictator-Secretary determinations and declarations.
Reader comment: I am trying to track the actual cite that shows that through HHS Secretary continuing authority, the CV emergency has not truly been lifted. Any help would be appreciated.
My reply:
Key premises:
The US Health and Human Services Secretary (first Alex Azar, now Xavier Becerra), by Congressional authorization under Congressionally-repealable statutes (42 USC 247d/Public Health Service Act Section 319, 21 USC 360bbb/Food Drug and Cosmetics Act Section 564 and related) has been the de facto administrative dictator of America, directing a covert mass murder campaign, since January 2020.
Azar and Becerra’s lethal power has been consolidated under the many mutually-reinforcing Covid-19 “public health emergency” lies, deceptions and illusions promulgated by government and government media outlets.
From time to time, the HHS Secretary issues new unilateral, unreviewable administrative decrees to reinforce and expand his covert ongoing dictatorship.
The most recent (that I’m aware of, I haven’t checked recently for updates) — are these two, issued by unindicted war criminal Xavier Becerra effective March 15, 2023 and May 11, 2023:
There is a lot more information in those two administrative decrees, and their many precursors, than the parts I’ve excerpted below.
New dictator offices and immune-system-destroying biochemical weapons development and deployment programs have been created and funded in the last few months:
July 21, 2023 - White House Launches Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. Introduces America’s public health emergency co-dictator, Major General (ret) Paul Friedrichs (formerly Senior Director for Global
HealthSecurityBioterrorism andBiodefenseState-Sponsored Biowarfare at the NationalSecurityDestruction Council (NSC), to serve alongside Xavier Becerra effective Aug. 7, 2023.Aug. 1, 2023 - Secretary [of State Anthony] Blinken to Deliver Remarks at the
Launch of the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy
Aug. 22, 2023 - Project NextGen Awards Over $1.4 Billion to Develop the Future of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics
Aug. 23, 2023 - As Part of President Biden’s Unity Agenda, Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces Launch of ARPA-H’s CUREIT Project, “a project that aims to develop generalizable mRNA platforms” to
treatcause turbo-cancers and other immune disorders.Excerpts from the March 15, 2023 determination and declaration decrees:
“Section II: Determination by the Secretary of Health and Human Services
On February 4, 2020, pursuant to his authority under section 564 of the FD&C Act, [21 USC 360bbb] the Secretary of HHS determined that the circumstances in section 564(b)(1) exist because ‘‘there is a public health emergency that has a significant potential to affect national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad and that involves a novel (new) coronavirus (nCoV) first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in 2019 (2019–nCoV).’’ 85 FR 7316…”
[KW note: The following paragraph promulgated as decree by the HHS Secretary is a series of false statements, commonly known as lies. Because of the legal structures established and not yet repealed by Congress, there is currently no process for Congress to hold meaningful hearings to review evidence that would establish the truth or falsity of the HHS Secretary claims and legislatively override his decrees [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(9)] and there is currently no access to federal courts to review evidence that would establish the truth or falsity of the HHS Secretary claims and judicially nullify or void his decrees. [42 USC 247d-6d(b)(7).] The only move available to Congress is repeal of the enabling laws, to strip the HHS Secretary of the power he currently holds, with which he can and is lying to Congress, and lying to, torturing and killing the American people, with legal impunity.]
“…It is now well established that SARS– CoV–2 is constantly evolving and continues to be an ongoing challenge. As of January 30, 2023, SARS–CoV–2 has led to over 753 million cases of COVID–19, including 6.8 million deaths worldwide. This is due, in part, to variations in the virus that may allow it to spread more easily or make it resistant to treatments or decreased vaccine effectiveness. There is also a risk that eventually a variant will emerge that will escape the protection provided by the current generation of vaccines against severe disease. For example, the SARS–CoV–2 Omicron variant has continued to evolve into sublineages with additional mutations in the spike glycoprotein and the receptor binding domain. Evolution of the virus also raises similar concerns about the continued efficacy of certain categories of therapeutics, such as monoclonal antibodies. The distribution of Omicron sublineages varies at different points in time in different regions of the world. The large number of mutations in the Omicron variant sublineages and the ongoing evolution of the virus remain a concern for potential evasion of vaccine immunity.
In light of this, I have now amended the February 4, 2020 determination to recognize the fact that there is ‘‘a public health emergency, or a significant potential for a public health emergency, that affects, or has a significant potential to affect, national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad’’ and that involves a biological agent, namely the novel (new) coronavirus (nCoV) first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in 2019 (2019–nCoV, or SARS–CoV–2).
If the current conditions change such that there is no longer a ‘‘public health emergency’’ within the meaning of section 564, the section 564(b)(1)(C) determination would remain in place because I have determined that there is also a ‘‘significant potential for a public health emergency’’ under that section.
This avoids the need to issue a new determination under section 564 when there is no longer a ‘‘public health emergency,’’ but there is still a ‘‘significant potential for a public health emergency’’ involving SARS–CoV–2.
The four previously-issued section 564 declarations that refer to the February 4, 2020 determination have not been terminated by the Secretary because, among other things, the circumstances described in section 564(b)(1) continue to exist—i.e., COVID–19, a disease attributable to SARS–CoV–2, continues to present a public health emergency, or a significant potential for a public health emergency, that affects, or has a significant potential to affect, national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad. Consistent with section 564(f), the currently-in-effect Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) issued under those section 564 declarations remain in effect until the earlier of the termination of relevant section 564 declarations under section 564(b), or revocation the EUAs. Therefore, these EUAs continue in effect…”
Section III. Declarations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services; EUAs Issued Under the Declarations
“Based on the February 4, 2020 determination, in February and March 2020, the Secretary of HHS, pursuant to section 564 of the FD&C Act and subject to the terms of any authorization issued under that section, declared that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of: (1) in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of this novel coronavirus, 85 FR 7316; (2) personal respiratory protective devices, 85 FR 13907; (3) other medical devices including alternative products used as medical devices, 85 FR 17335; and (4) drugs and biological products, 85 FR 18250.
These section 564 declarations continue in effect. Specifically, under section 564(b)(2)(A), a declaration made under section 564 will not terminate unless the Secretary determines that ‘‘the circumstances described in [section 564(b)(1)] have ceased to exist,’’ or there is ‘‘a change in the approval status of the [authorized] product such that the circumstances described in subsection (a)(2) have ceased to exist.’’ Section 564(b)(2)(A) of the FD&C Act.
The first basis for termination is not met because the circumstances described in section 564(b)(1) have not ceased to exist; to the contrary, as described above, I have determined that the circumstances described in section 564(b)(1)(C) continue to exist.
The second basis for termination is not met because each declaration covers many products, or emergency uses of products, at least some of which remain ‘‘unapproved’’ within the meaning of section 564(a)(2).
Consistent with section 564(f), the EUAs issued under these declarations remain in effect until the earlier of the termination of relevant section 564 declarations or revocation of the EUAs. Accordingly, the currently-in-effect EUAs issued under the section 564 determination/declarations for COVID– 19 also continue in effect…”
Excerpts from the May 11, 2023 Eleventh Amendment to Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID–19 decrees:
“Summary:
The Secretary issues this amendment pursuant to section 319F–3 of the Public Health Service Act [42 USC 247d] to update the determination of a public health emergency and clarify the disease threat…
Declaration, as Amended, for Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act Coverage for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID–19
To the extent any term previously in the Declaration, including its amendments, is inconsistent with any provision of this Republished Declaration, the terms of this Republished Declaration are controlling. This Declaration must be construed in accordance with the Advisory Opinions of the Office of the General Counsel (Advisory Opinions). I incorporate those Advisory Opinions as part of this Declaration. This Declaration is a ‘‘requirement’’ under the PREP Act.
Section I. Determination of Public Health Emergency
42 U.S.C. 247d–6d(b)(1)
I have determined that the spread of SARS–CoV–2 or a virus mutating therefrom and the resulting disease COVID–19 constitutes a credible risk of a future public health emergency.
I further determine that use of any respiratory protective device approved by NIOSH under 42 CFR part 84, or any successor regulations, is a priority for use during the public health emergency that former Secretary Azar declared on January 31, 2020 under section 319 of the PHS Act for the entire United States to aid in the response of the nation’s healthcare community to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Section II. Factors Considered
42 U.S.C. 247d–6d(b)(6)
I have considered the desirability of encouraging the design, development, clinical testing, or investigation, manufacture, labeling, distribution, formulation, packaging, marketing, promotion, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, licensing, and use of the Covered Countermeasures…
Section VIII. Category of Disease, Health Condition, or Threat
42 U.S.C. 247d–6d(b)(2)(A)
The category of disease, health condition, or threat for which I recommend the administration or use of the Covered Countermeasures is not only COVID–19 caused by SARS–CoV– 2, or a virus mutating therefrom, but also other diseases, health conditions, or threats that may have been caused by COVID–19, SARS–CoV–2, or a virus mutating therefrom, including the threat of increased burden on the healthcare system due to seasonal influenza infections occurring at the same time as COVID–19 infections, which will lead to an increase in the rate of infectious diseases…”
