Public health officials explained to a Senate panel on Wednesday how the federal money they have been seeking since February would be spent.
“Our bottom line is we’re trying to do everything we can to protect pregnant women,” Rear Adm. Anne Schuchat, MD, principal deputy director at the CDC, told a roundtable meeting of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
She and other witnesses explained the need for increasing resources to scale up research on the virus, develop vaccines, improve diagnostic tests, ramp up mosquito control, and expand access to contraception.
