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With six weeks left in President Donald Trump’s term, the administration has put together a revised plan for the discount cards, which it circulated inside the administration Tuesday. The plan came with instructions to expedite approval and send cards in December and January, Politico reports.
Meanwhile, HHS chief Alex Azar said Wednesday that the Trump administration is confident it has enough contracts with companies to ensure adequate doses of the COVID vaccine for all Americans.
The reactions that two people in Britain suffered Wednesday after receiving the Pfizer vaccine were not predicted by trials in tens of thousands of people, experts say. The exact ingredients used in Pfizer’s vaccine are proprietary and have not been publicly disclosed.
Hospitals across the country are overwhelmed as COVID hospitalizations continue to rise.
Emergency-use authorization (EUA) could come as soon as today, but Peter Marks, the director of the FDA division overseeing vaccines, tempered that outlook Wednesday.
All the while, America is racing toward another stunning total: 300,000 total deaths from COVID.
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A "cruise to nowhere" was forced to return to Singapore a day early after a man tested positive for COVID. Also: The Michigan-Ohio State football game has been canceled for the first time ever; a death after childbirth; outdoor therapy; and sex takes a hit during the pandemic, too.
The prominent consulting company vowed a review of its actions in helping Purdue Pharma promote the use of opioids. In other pharma industry news, a watchdog group wants the relationship between the FDA and Biogen investigated.
In Idaho on Tuesday, a Board of Health meeting in Boise was adjourned when members learned that protesters had gathered at their homes; a nurse in Oregon who had flouted COVID guidelines on TikTok will leave her job at Salem Health; and more.
The security flaw was found in 104 types of radiological devices including CT scanners, X-ray machines and ultrasound devices, across GE product lines. In other industry news, a federal judge allows the Jefferson Health and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network merger to proceed.
Yet another proposal for limiting surprise medical bills means little movement is expected from Congress. In other news, legislation to eliminate federal prescribing requirements is introduced.
Negotiations are fluid and what's in the coronavirus stimulus package is still far from settled, from the amount people would get to waiving liability for employees' health.
President-elect Joe Biden laid out his plan to fight the pandemic: masks, vaccinations and opening schools.
The current and future presidents held concurrent public events Tuesday, but that's where any similarities cease. At his vaccine summit, President Donald Trump claimed that the worst of the coronavirus crisis is over. President-elect Joe Biden, when introducing his selected health team, warned that the worst is yet to come.
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