Healthcare

World’s Supply of Chips Is in Danger Unless Taiwan Gets Vaccines

May 24, 2021

Having successfully sidestepped the first Covid wave, the government now faces a health emergency — only about 1% of its population is vaccinated so far — with the potential to disrupt the chip industry that dominates the local economy, and which is critical to an already-squeezed global supply.

Delayed Second Dose Turns Into a Win for Vaccine-Starved Places

May 21, 2021

Bloomberg

Faced with a limited supply of shots, more countries are turning to an initially controversial strategy that’s now been vindicated by scientific studies: doubling or tripling the intervals between the first and second Covid vaccine dose.

There’s No Hidden U.S. Vaccine Stockpile Ready to Send Abroad

May 17, 2021

Bloomberg

America’s millions of unused doses aren’t an easy-to-ship surplus.

Oxygen Shortage in India Sparks Global Hunt for $1,000 Machines

May 13, 2021

Bloomberg

India has reported more than 300,000 daily infections for 21 consecutive days, highlighting the country’s slide into the world’s worst health crisis.

Life Science Research Struggles With an Antiquated Supply Chain

May 10, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

What might well be the most important supply chain in the world today is also one of the most backward, when it comes to automating key processes.

Seven Ways Global Data Standards Could Improve Healthcare Supply Chains

May 7, 2021

Karen Conway, SCB Contributor

Supply shortages during the pandemic have underscored the need for data accuracy, visibility and sharing across multiple parties within the healthcare system.

In Southeast Asia, Packaging Rules Make Covid Testing Thorny

May 5, 2021

Jay Johnson, SCB Contributor

Differences in infectious substance classifications, packaging requirements and other shipping regulations between countries create significant supply-chain challenges — particularly when it comes to sourcing approved packaging for shipping COVID-19 samples in Southeast Asia.

Covid Shots Come in Bulk. The World Needs Single Servings.

April 30, 2021

Bloomberg

Vaccination campaigns in the U.S. and some other countries are moving from mass demand to more targeted efforts to reach the hesitant — and doctors want easier ways to deliver shots.

Vaccine Hoarding May Backfire on Rich Nations as India Reels

April 28, 2021

Bloomberg

For months, developed economies have hoarded COVID-19 vaccines and the raw materials needed to make them. Now, they’re being forced to act as an explosive outbreak in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world.

How the Vaccine Got Distributed So Quickly — and Lessons Learned for Next Time

April 26, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

President Biden far surpassed his original goal of administering 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines within his first 100 days in office, but the initiative couldn’t have succeeded without a substantial manufacturing and logistics infrastructure backing it up.

Healthcare

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