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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Demand surge, supply shortages complicate COVID-19 waste management
The challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic instantly increased demand for some...
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Getting a vaccine at work funnels shots to people who need them most
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FDA way behind on facility inspections
The problem: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration largely stopped conducting surveillance inspections — periodic evaluations of manufacturing...
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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...
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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...
This is an excerpt from the February 23, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
The problem: Americans of color are receiving the vaccine at far lower rates than white Americans, even though people of color are more likely to get COVID-19. The supply chain is part of the problem.
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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
