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Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer.

The Strategic National Stockpile stores critical supplies. It fell short when the pandemic first hit. Now, a new effort is being implemented, but it's still not providing what the U.S. needs.

April 1, 2021 6:07 AM By Brandon Lee President Joe Biden’s call to spend $400 billion to expand home and community-based care is raising advocates’ hopes that lawmakers might finally address long-standing challenges the industry, the elderly and people with disabilities face. Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal unveiled yesterday included the new funds over eight years to boost access to long-term care under Medicaid, the federal government’s pu...

Used N95 masks are collected at Bostons Massachusetts General Hospital on April 13. Hospital staff members wrote their names on the masks so each could be returned after being cleaned, a strategy used to alleviate critical shortages of respirator masks. (Blake Nissen/Boston Globe via Getty Images) The Strategic National Stockpile, which the U.S. has traditionally depended on for emergencies, still lacks critical supplies nine months into one of the worst public health care crises this country h...

Patient readers, I’m afraid brunch ran late. More soon. –lambert Bird Song of the Day A Scottish bird (for Morag). #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. A slight decrease in slope, 15 days after Thanksgiving. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. I thought I’d look at some big states (New York, Florid...