Before this amendment, several courts, including our own, "reasoned that ‘the PREP Act addresses the administration or use of covered countermeasures and there is simply no room to read it as equally applicable to the non-administration or non-use of covered countermeasures.’ " Maltbia v. Big Blue Healthcare, Inc. , No. 20-2607-DDC-KGG, 2021 WL 1196445, at *6 (D. Kan. Mar. 30, 2021) (quotation cleaned up) (quoting Eaton , 480 F. Supp. 3d at 1186, n.1, 1194 ); see alsoid. at *6–7 (collecting cases). The possibility that an inaction claim could fall within the PREP Act's scope does not upend the distinction between action and inaction that our court, among others, has drawn.
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Numerous district court decisions across the country have extensively detailed the PREP Act in the context of motions to remand plaintiffs’ state court claims concerning COVID-19 against nursing homes, senior care, and assisted living facilities. See e.g. , Dupervil v. All. Health Operations, LCC , 516 F.Supp.3d 238, 242-49 (E.D.N.Y. 2021) ; Maltbia, ex rel. Dockery, v. Big Blue Healthcare, Inc., No. 20-cv-2607, 2021 WL 1196445, at *4–12 (D. Kan. Mar. 30, 2021). The PREP Act empowers the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") to " ‘to deem an event a ‘public health emergency’ and then take action to utilize funds established by the Treasury to manage the emergency.’ "
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