Healthcare

Getting the COVID-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries

January 24, 2022

As of mid-December, 61.4% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate that disease experts say is inadequate to eradicate the virus. But it’s far better than the shockingly low numbers of some developing countries, where vaccination rates are still in the single digits.

Covid Testing Kits Could Be Harder to Find, Thanks to Supreme Court

January 24, 2022

Patrick Callaway, SCB Contributor

If you’ve attempted to purchase an at-home COVID-19 test recently, you may have walked away from the store empty-handed. There’s been a nationwide shortage of at-home tests that hit at nearly the same time as the Omicron variant began to peak in almost every state.

Nightmare Vaccine Logistics Are Prolonging the Global Pandemic

January 20, 2022

Bloomberg

Lack of supply was the biggest threat initially to the vaccination programs of developing nations. Now, it’s logistics.

Omicron’s Surge Gives Bosses a Reason to Order Shots Biden Can’t

January 14, 2022

Bloomberg

The U.S. Supreme Court may have rejected a federal rule mandating COVID-19 vaccinations or testing, but businesses threatened by omicron’s spread might be forced to implement one anyway to protect the workers they have and keep factories open.

Covid Test Makers Struggle to Cope With Whiplash From Omicron

January 10, 2022

Bloomberg

As the omicron variant sends U.S. Covid case numbers soaring to new records and drugstores and walk-in clinics clamor for test kits, suppliers have been struggling with their own mounting problems.

Covid Is Forcing Supply Chains to Finally Modernize

December 23, 2021

Jason Murray, SCB Contributor

Supply chain digitization is the shortest path to improved efficiency, resiliency, speed and, ultimately, cost.

Leveraging Supply Chain Management Systems to Relieve Burden on Clinicians

December 20, 2021

Angela McNally, SCB Contributor

Even during a health-care crisis, clinicians shouldn't be burdened with inventory or supply chain decision making.

Biden Signed the $550 Billion Infrastructure Deal. Here's Who Gets the Money.

November 16, 2021

Bloomberg

President Biden signed the $550 billion measure at a White House ceremony on Monday, after appointing a group of officials to guide the law’s enactment.

A Public-Private Logistics Partnership Streamlines Delivery of HIV Medicine

November 10, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Management Sciences for Health, with funding from USAID and in cooperation with multiple private and public entities in Ukraine, launches a successful pilot to improve that country’s healthcare delivery supply chain.

Moderna Finds That Creating a Covid Vaccine Was the Easy Part

November 8, 2021

Bloomberg

More than 10 months after U.S. regulators first authorized its potent shot, Moderna is finding that inventing a COVID-19 vaccine was actually a relatively straightforward task compared with what would come next: ramping up vial-filling operations on multiple continents and distributing the vaccine to countries around the world in the middle of a devastating pandemic.

Healthcare

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