Lawmakers Push for Pandemic Probe

“A Senate panel is to vote Tuesday on whether to establish an independent task force to probe the U.S. response to the pandemic — the closest lawmakers have come to supporting such an investigation, two years into the crisis,” the Washington Post reports.

“The vote on that bipartisan legislation, part of the Prevent Pandemics Act before the Senate’s health committee, comes as Democrats and Republicans have pursued their own probes seeking to shape public perceptions ahead of midterm elections that could alter the balance of power in Washington.”