Sec. 31023. Funding for surveillance activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, directly or by making grants to public or private entities, activities described in subsection (b). Amounts made available by subsection
(a)shall be used to— enhance and strengthen early warning and detection systems, including public health and health care surveillance, wastewater testing, and global and domestic genomic surveillance; enhance and strengthen surveillance based in hospitals and other health care providers or facilities, and outpatient facility surveillance for severe acute respiratory infection, influenza-like illness, acute febrile illness, and other diseases as determined by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be in the interest of public health; and strengthen the antibiotic resistance initiative program to improve research, stewardship, genomic detection capabilities, and surveillance of existing and emerging antimicrobial resistant pathogens.