Federal emergency authorities activated to aid in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic incorporated important protections for the businesses and individuals who are part of the nation's response to the current public health emergency. The protections include immunities from tort liability, antitrust liability and contract liability for actions like manufacture of products to diagnose and treat COVID-19, supply of those products and the materials used to make them, volunteering professional health care services and sanctions for certain physician self-referrals.
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