(English) As Congress Debates COVID-19 Relief Funding, CED Calls for Swift Action and to Prioritize Impacted Families & Businesses and Defeating the Pandemic

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED) released the following statement on the current congressional negotiations over COVID-19 relief funding:

The nation needs immediate action to expand health care resources to defeat the coronavirus and to provide relief to families, businesses, and state and local governments that have been devastated by this pandemic. Mutations of the coronavirus threaten public health…