Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
In a tweet yesterday, the Administration said it will make 400 million N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile available for free to Americans. “N95 masks will be available for the public to pick up at tens of thousands of local pharmacies and health centers,” the White House tweet said.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration Dec.
The White House Office of the United States Trade Representative has extended through May 31, 2022, 81 tariff exemptions for certain medical care products needed to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Food and Drug Administration Friday authorized another over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic test for emergency use.
The AHA Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. ET is hosting a webinar with HCA Healthcare leaders Edmund Jackson, M.D., and Jeffrey Guy, M.D., who will share oxygen conservation strategies as COVID-19 cases surge nationwide, leading to limitation in supplies.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have developed a sample preparation method to detect SARS-CoV-2 that could reduce the time and cost of COVID-19 diagnostic testing, the agency announced.
Non-traditional producers used additive manufacturing — also known as 3D printing — to deliver an estimated 38 million face shield parts, 12 million nasal swabs, 2.5 million ear savers, 241,000 mask parts and 116,000 ventilator parts between Feb. 15 and July 15, 2020, according to a report released…
Since the first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed and the pandemic changed the ways in which patients were able to access traditional health care settings, providers were required to navigate significant challenges to ensure their services were still able to reach millions of patients. In response,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its interim guidance stating that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, indoors or outdoors.
While certain health care supply chain pressures remain during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are notable improvements, particularly in the area of collaboration.