This is an excerpt from the May 6, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
The decision: On Wednesday, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines.
“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” Tai said, according to a statement.
U.S. support doesn’t...
This is an excerpt from the April 15, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
What happened? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after a few recipients developed blood clots.
— Six women had blood clots after receiving the vaccine. One died and another is in critical condition, according to NPR.
— Right now, the CDC says these adverse...
This is an excerpt from the March 4, 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.
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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This is an excerpt from the February 25, 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.
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...
Janet Fields of Savannah, Georgia-based John S. James Co. is no stranger to risk management issues at the corporate level. But Fields, the recently appointed president of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA), is seeing those skills put to the test as the industry weathers the dismal effects on trade from the coronavirus pandemic.
Fields was nominated to serve as NCBFAA president in January, following two years as the association’s vice president and decades...
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