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US President Donald Trump promised there would be 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for Americans by the end of the year, but fewer than 3 million have been inoculated with their first dose.
The US, under the Trump administration’s vaccine programme Operation Warp Speed, has supported research, manufacturing and distribution for coronavirus vaccines in record time.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of two vaccines only 10 months after the first US case of Covid-19 was confirmed.
The previous record was four years, with the vaccine for the mumps in the 1960s.
But now the challenge is quickly vaccinating as many people as possible, as the country has the largest outbreak in the world.
Year in review: A look at news events in January 2020
Debris is seen from an Ukrainian plane which crashed as authorities work at the scene in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran s main airport, killing all onboard. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Ebrahim Noroozi December 31, 2020 - 11:30 AM
A look at news events in January 2020:
02 - The U.S. Pentagon announced a military airstrike at Baghdad s International Airport killed a top-ranking member of Iran s elite Revolutionary Guard. It happened at the direction of President Donald Trump, who tweeted an image of the American flag as the news broke. The U.S. Defence Department said Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. Iran s supreme leader vowed there would be harsh re
In Featured, News by Ged Kenslea
December 30, 2020
On Wednesday, the HHS Office of the General Counsel released an advisory opinion concluding that drug manufacturers are required to deliver discounts under the 340B Drug Pricing Program on covered outpatient drugs when contract pharmacies are acting as agents of 340B covered entities
they planned to refuse to provide certain drugs at the legally required ‘340B price’
as required by section 340B of the U.S. Public Health Services Act
WASHINGTON (December 30, 2020) AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) welcomed and praised an advisory opinion issued earlier today by the Office of the General Counsel for the United States Health and Human Services Department (HHS) which concluded that drug manufacturers are required to deliver discounts under the 340B Drug Pricing Program on covered outpatient drugs when contract pharmacies are acting as agents of 340B covered entities. (HHS press release)
Hospitals Say They Will Publish Previously Secret Prices
Largest U.S. hospital chains say they will comply with new rules to make public confidentially negotiated prices with health insurers
HCA Healthcare says it will comply with new rules to release pricing. Above, HCA’s Medical Center of Trinity in Trinity, Fla. Photo: Bloomberg News By Updated Dec. 31, 2020 2:50 pm ET
Major hospital operators say they will comply with new rules to make public their prices for medical procedures starting Friday, exposing previously secret market rates in an industry that accounts for about 6% of the U.S. economy.
The roughly $1.2 trillion hospital sector will begin posting prices publicly in the New Year after losing a legal challenge to overturn new transparency rules that are a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s health-care policy.