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What’s in the huge pandemic relief bill for science? | |
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2021-03-10 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 美国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | A massive $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill now on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk will deliver cash to a wide array of groups—including the scientific community. The U.S. House of Representatives today approved final passage of the bill, which Biden is expected to sign on Friday, on a 220–211 party-line vote. The bill is designed primarily to address the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate the distribution of vaccines and treatments that have proved effective against the pandemic coronavirus. In addition to direct cash payments to millions of U.S. residents, the bill includes nearly $60 billion for vaccine and treatment development, manufacturing, distribution, and tracking, as well as COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. It also includes $11 billion that will go to international groups and foreign governments addressing the pandemic and other public health threats, including $3.5 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and $250 million to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the primary U.S. aid program to address HIV/AIDS. The Democratic-controlled Congress rejected pleas by higher education lobbyists for tens of billions of dollars for federal research agencies to help universities recoup the losses to their research programs. But legislators did include some provisions to bolster pandemic-related research activities, including:
With reporting by Jon Cohen, Jeffrey Mervis, Erik Stokstad, and Meredith Wadman. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/318073 |
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