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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series on the trends that will shape the industry in 2021. You can find all the articles on our trendline. Few government agencies were as front and center in the public eye last year as the Food and Drug Administration, which came under immense pressure to authorize unproven drugs as the world grappled with the pandemic and conducted high-stakes reviews of two coronavirus vaccines. As COVID-19 cases continue to soar in the U.S., most of those pressures ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With COVID-19 surging and vaccinations off to a slow start, President-elect Joe Biden will rapidly release most available vaccine doses to protect more people, his office said Friday, a reversal of Trump administration policies. “The president-elect believes we must accelerate distribution of the vaccine while continuing to ensure the Americans who need it most get it as soon as possible," spokesman T.J. Ducklo said in a statement. Biden “supports releasing available dos...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... WASHINGTON — With COVID-19 surging and vaccinations off to a slow start, President-elect Joe Biden will rapidly release most available vaccine doses to protect more people, his office said Friday, a reversal of Trump administration policies. “The president-elect believes we must accelerate distri...

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Former FDA commissioner, now Duke health policy expert, Mark McClellan, who also previously served as an administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said of the rollout, "This is complicated; it is going to get better."

Health Policy Expert Says Collaboration Is Key In Vaccine Rollout by Bethany Chafin TED S. WARREN/AP Phase 1a of the state’s vaccination plan focused on health care workers and long-term care staff and residents. Now, some areas are expanding that to include individuals who are over 75. Dr. Mark McClellan is a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and currently is the director of the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. He says this ...

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AUSTIN -- Lobbying to get to the front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine in Texas is underway. Leaders representing major industries -- airlines, energy, food processing, even Uber and DoorDash -- are asking Texas to give their workers early access to the limited supply of shots. Also calling for priority are teachers unions and groups representing people with diabetes, cystic fibrosis and other serious medical conditions. Some sectors -- such as convenience stores, dialysis centers and freest...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As pandemic deaths and infections soar across the United States, a new National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan from The Rockefeller Foundation calls on the U.S. government to massively scale up Covid-19 testing to 300 million per month for students, teachers, and staff in order to reopen and keep open Americas nearly 100,000 public schools by March.  The Plan, , lays out a new plan for the largest domestic testing sc...

Share: In partnership with Facebook Data for Good, the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Joint Program on Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland (UMD), the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies Catalyst @ Health 2.0, the industry leader in digital health strategic partnering, announced today DeepOutbreak as the winner and The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge looked for novel analytic approaches that u...