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FDA Clears First COVID-19 Vaccine Under an Emergency Use Authorization


Storage and Handling and the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine
The vaccine uses messenger RNA, which is extremely fragile and requires very cold storage temperatures and can be damaged by light. This is the is the first ever messenger RNA vaccine to gain FDA clearance. 
Cartons of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Multiple Dose Vials are shipped in thermal containers with dry ice. Once received, hospitals need to remove the vial cartons immediately from the thermal container and store in an ultra-low temperature freezer between -112ºF to -76ºF (-80ºC to -60ºC). Vials must be kept frozen and have minimized exposure to room light, and avoid exposure to direct sunlight and ultraviolet light. ....

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HHS purchases 100 million additional doses of Moderna investigational COVID-19 vaccine


HHS purchases 100 million additional doses of Moderna investigational COVID-19 vaccine
The additional doses ordered are projected to provide for continuous delivery through the end of June 2021.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense, will purchase an additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate, called mRNA-1273, from Moderna.
If authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use as outlined in agency guidance, doses of the vaccine will begin shipping immediately. The vaccine would be provided at no cost to Americans. 
Vaccine administration costs for private-sector administration partners will be covered by healthcare payers: private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, and an HHS program to cover COVID-19 costs for the uninsured, which is reimbursing the provider at Medicare rates from the provider relief fund. ....

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OTAs Soar & Army Leads The Way: CSIS Report


By  
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
on December 09, 2020 at 4:12 PM
The Army remains the leading user of Other Transaction Authority, but the other services are starting to catch up. SOURCE: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s use of Other Transaction Authority, which bypasses a sclerotic contracting system, rose 75 percent in fiscal 2019 alone, according to a new analysis of Defense Department data by the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Since 2015 – the year Other Transaction Authority first took off, spurred on by congressional reforms – the annual value obligated under OTAs has soared
712 percent.
CSIS scholar Rhys McCormick delved deep into the Federal Procurement Data System database to come up with both those staggering big-picture trendlines and some intriguing caveats. ....

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