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Medically Necessary: Infrastructure plan directs billions to health care 0 163 4 minutes read President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg meet with bipartisan members of the House to discuss infrastructure. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) This is an excerpt from the April 1, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter.  The White House’s infrastructure plan is just a proposal. Congress will have to approve any infrastructure spending.  There are few calls to invest directly in the...

Demand surge, supply shortages complicate COVID-19 waste management (Photo: ) The challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic instantly increased demand for some types of medical waste management, such as the disposal of personal protective equipment and testing supplies. Waste management companies say they met that challenge last year, but it required a lot of flexibility. A shortage of sharps containers, the plastic buckets in which clinicians throw away old syringes and vials, has made that harder. Waste managers are also trying to predict the pandemic's long-term effects on medical waste management...

This is an excerpt from the March 4, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here. Good afternoon. Medically ...

$5.2 billion for research and development related to vaccines or therapeutics. Some of that money could also go to manufacturing and production, but the bill doesn't specify how much.  The bill's text focuses on COVID-19 but would also allow the agency to use the funds for other diseases. The Food and Drug Administration would receive $500 million. Part of that money would go toward facilitating COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing, inspecting manufacturers producing vaccines or therapeutics, and oversight of the supply chain.  Part of the supply chain oversight would include mitigating drug sho...

Medically Necessary: Making the vaccine supply chain work for communities of color The supply chain is contributing to racial disparities in vaccination A patient receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Neighborhood Health in Nashville, Tennessee. (Credit: Neighborhood Health) This is an excerpt from the February 23, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. The problem: Americans of color are receiving the vaccine at far lower rates than white Americans, even though people of color are more likely to get COVID-19. The supply chain is part of the problem. “...