[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 22 (Friday, February 5, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H458]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  WINNING THE WAR AGAINST THE PANDEMIC

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, this is a daunting and overwhelming 
responsibility that this country has, and that is to defeat COVID-19 
and to win this war against the pandemic.
  If you take a survey of different States, you will find that there is 
an uneven approach to distribution. There are mega centers; there are 
small centers; and there are no centers. I am reintroducing my COVID-19 
Delivery Act of 2021 that sets out a protocol dealing with the 
nationalization or federalization of distribution so that distribution 
is organized to the extent that every part of America knows when their 
vaccines will come.
  We will put out a national app so that public health entities can 
know when their doses will come. We will find a logistical scheme so 
that FEMA can manage the distribution across the Nation. We will 
purposely design it so that hard-to-reach neighborhoods, communities of 
minorities, will be found and so that we begin to vaccinate people 
massively across the Nation.
  We have to save lives. 594,000 may die by May. Please cosponsor the 
2021 COVID-19 Delivery Act. It is going to make a difference.

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