Medically Necessary: Delaying second doses would reshape the vaccine supply chain

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This is an excerpt from the February 25, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletterSubscribe 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.

Delaying second doses would reshape the vaccine supply chain

The debate: Some scientists argue the U.S. should delay second doses of COVID-19 vaccines and instead give them to...

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Medically Necessary: Winter storm delays, FEMA vaccination sites, Supply chain for superspreaders

A FEMA vaccination site in Los Angeles. (Credit: FEMA/Alexis Hall)

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 car drives through a winter storm in Dallas. (Credit: Matthew T Rader, MatthewTRader.com, License CC-BY-SA)

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...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/medically-necessary:-winter-storm-delays-fema-vaccination-sites-supply-chain-for-superspreaders

Medically Necessary: IT systems slow vaccine rollout, new vaccines add complications

A CVS pharmacy in Mass. begins administering COVID-19 vaccines (Credit: Scott Eisen/CVS Health)

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

Image credit: Ahm masum

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

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