Last month, a team from Wellpath, a private company that provides health care at jails and prisons, delivered COVID-19 vaccines to more than 1,000 incarcerated people.
At this particular facility (which the company wouldn’t name), the last mile of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain is between the pharmacy building and the housing units, where inmates live.
But a lot can happen in that final mile to slow vaccinations, according to Chief Nursing Officer Heather Norman, who traveled with the...
This is an excerpt from the March 16, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.
Pharma firms working together to make each other’s vaccines
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Logistics companies worldwide have grown deeply familiar this year with pivoting on a dime, but the pharmaceutical supply chain in particular has proven its robustness. In an interview with FreightWaves, Trip House, director of business development and commercial products in North America for World Courier, an AmerisourceBergen company, shared how weathering past disruptions like the Ebola outbreak and Iceland’s 2010 volcano eruption taught World Courier to always have a backup plan, as well as...
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This is an excerpt from the March 2, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.
Stimulus bill has billions to boost vaccine distribution
The COVID-19 stimulus bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives includes billions of dollars for the vaccine...
Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves at DFW Air Cargo Terminal
Considering that the best supply chain is invisible to consumers, 2020 will be remembered as the year the supply chain became a primary focus of the world. It also was a common topic of conversation within households, as shoppers began encountering empty shelves where they expected to find toilet paper, milk, and disinfectant wipes.
Within the industry and beyond, it has become clear the supply chain lacks the unity, visibility, and agility...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/building-cold-chain-partnerships-amid-extensive-disruption
This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 1 focuses on the military, aerospace and manufacturing.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Gateway to Latin America
DETAILS: Miami International Airport is the cargo hub for the Americas. Flowers, fresh fruit, seafood, machinery and other products transfer there between U.S. destinations and Latin America and Europe. MIA had a record year for cargo in 2020 despite the COVID pandemic. Pineda discusses why Miami continues to...
Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.
Winter storm temporarily slows vaccine rollout
A massive winter storm is slowing the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across much of the U.S.
Mass vaccinations canceled: The storm forced cancellations of...
Good Afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter about the health care supply chain, how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.
Convoluted IT systems slowing vaccine rollout
The problem: The process for sharing data about COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a convoluted Rube Goldberg machine and it’s slowing down the vaccine campaign.
The background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists six different software systems
The Southern Plains are preparing for a second wave of winter weather as millions of people from Missouri to Southern Texas are experiencing rolling blackouts from the first storm. Interstates have been closed due to freezing rain and inches of snow while Texas struggles to keep up with electricity demand during its coldest snap in decades.
A second winter storm is forecast to roll through the same region in the next two days, dropping more snow and ice and keeping temperatures dangerously low,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wild-weather-grips-most-of-the-country-midday-market-update
