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The Trump administration introduced Operation Warp Speed, a $10 billion public-private partnership intended to accelerate development, manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics by January 2021.

The Department of Health and Human Services has canceled today’s deadline for hospitals and health systems to submit data to inform the agency’s distribution of its supply of remdesivir.

Our just-concluded National Hospital Week provided many great opportunities to express our heartfelt thanks to the remarkable caregivers who continue to minister to COVID-19 patients—and all patients who come through our hospital and health system doors—every day in every community across America.

The House yesterday passed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act — a $3 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

The National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine released recommendations for improving outcomes and metrics associated with four grant programs funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to help reduce opioid-related harm and promote recovery from substance use disorder.

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council, a public-private partnership developed to mitigate threats to the nation’s health care sector, released guidance and recommendations to help health care organizations protect trade secrets, medical research and other innovation capital from theft. 

Health care systems face difficult challenges in their effort to provide safe and effective care not just for COVID-19 patients, but all patients living with serious illness.

The AHA today debuted a new video that spotlights the value of membership in the AHA, including how the association is telling hospital and health systems’ stories, advocating for funding and regulatory relief, getting resources to the front lines and helping to lead the field to recovery.

Shelter-in-place orders and the closure of restaurants, bars and entertainment-related businesses helped to slow the spread of COVID-19 between March 1 and April 27, according to a study published by Health Affairs.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of infusion pumps to counteract insufficient supplies needed for the continuous infusion of medications, total parenteral nutrition and other fluids into COVID-19 patients.