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Families, health advocates press lawmakers to expand public access to epinephrine
Summary
Witnesses told the committee that H.2500 would allow public entities and trained employees to maintain undesignated stock epinephrine in public places; several family members urged passage after a preventable death during anaphylaxis at a golf tournament.
Multiple witnesses urged the Joint Committee on Public Health to pass H.2500 to expand public access to epinephrine autoinjectors and provide legal protections for trained staff and volunteers to administer stock epinephrine.
Megan Shy Brown, whose husband died after a wasp sting and anaphylactic reaction, described the incident and urged lawmakers…
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