$25M Blockchain Bill Fights COVID-19 with Strategic National Stockpile 

Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts presented a bill on April 23 to build up a blockchain organize fit for observing the SNS. 

U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts has acquainted a bill with build up a blockchain organize fit for supervising the dissemination of individual insurance hardware, ventilators and other vital clinical gear during the present pandemic. 

The April 23 bill, named the "Vital National Stockpile [SNS] Enhancement and Transparency Act" or H.R. 6607, states that the National Emergency Biodefense Network, a system planned to manage the flexibly of medications, antibodies, clinical gadgets, and different supplies will be "created and executed utilizing a private blockchain." 

Rep. Lynch proposed a $25 million financial plan through monetary 2022 to do the measures contained in the bill, which incorporate utilizing blockchain innovation to screen the accessibility of provisions in the SNS and for individual U.S. states utilizing the system. 

In an announcement on April 29, the congressman clarified his explanations behind acquainting a blockchain-based methodology with battle the pandemic: 

"Numerous [health care providers] have been compelled to work without adequate gear and supplies. Sadly, when states have looked for help from the SNS, their solicitations have gone unanswered. We rely upon the SNS to enhance state stores of biodefense supplies and gear and H.R. 6607 will guarantee the preparation of the SNS to react to future emergencies. By embracing a private blockchain framework we can check the status of our biodefense limit progressively which will permit us to be more ready." 

Making the pandemic political 

Lynch's bill for states to more readily use the assets contained inside the SNS comes half a month after the Trump organization transformed it into a political device. Addressing the press on April 2, Jared Kushner inferred that the reserve and its potential life-sparing hardware had a place solely with the government and not to the states. 

The Department of Health and Human Services' site initially expressed the motivation behind the SNS was to guarantee "that the correct prescriptions and supplies get to the individuals who need them most during a crisis", yet it was changed after Kushner's announcement to depict the store as a "transient band-aid cradle" for states. 

Blockchain innovation in the hour of COVID 

Numerous others in the United States are looking to blockchain innovation for arrangements during the present pandemic. 

Congress has been thinking about actualizing blockchain-based democratic if stay-at-home or social separating orders are probably going to proceed through the 2020 races. Significantly bigger bodies like the Centers for Disease Control have been attempting to create contract following stages to contain COVID-19 by using blockchain.