In April 2020, Vice President Mike Pence announced that skilled nursing facilities would receive a higher priority for PPE and other resources from the federal government. Pence announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency would soon start sending PPE to every nursing home in the United States. The same month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed its priority classifications for COVID-19 testing related to long-term care. Under the new rules, health care workers and residents with symptoms would be high priority, and health care workers who contact people known or suspected to have COVID-19 would be rated priority. Before, the CDC identified three priority levels for tests. Symptomatic health care workers were rated as priority one, symptomatic residents were rated as priority two, and asymptomatic health care workers as priority three. This action came after two months of urgent requests from AHCA/NCAL.