The Federal Emergency Management Agency today published a plan of action to develop a national strategy that would coordinate transportation systems needed to supply, produce and distribute critical COVID-19 health care resources, the latest addition to a 2020 voluntary agreement under the Defense Production Act that permits private sector organizations to coordinate with other organizations to produce and distribute critical health care resources during the pandemic. 
 

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