The Department of Health and Human Services today will amend the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act to permit doctors and nurses who have recently retired or become inactive to administer COVID-19 vaccines and anyone currently licensed to vaccinate in their state to administer shots across state lines, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients announced today at the first regular briefing by the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

“As the President said, we need to increase the number of places people can get vaccinated,” Zients said. “And at the same time increase the number of vaccinators. This action by HHS will help get more vaccinators in the field.”

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